HELLAND-HANSEN 8 NANSEN (1909) 



20" 10' 



ARCTIC ATLAS (HO. PUB. 705) 











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Figure 4. Current Schemes of Previous Investigators. 



divided into a number of vortex movements. They believed that vortices 

 were common throughout the region and pointed out that such movements 

 may have been responsible for the waviness of the isopleths in many 

 of their sections. Helland-Hansen and Nansen also described two 

 additional features of the circulation of the Greenland Sea. One 

 is the continuation of the East Spitsbergen Current which rounds 

 southern Svalbard and flows north as a relatively small, cold, and 

 dilute current between the West Spitsbergen Current and Svalbard. 

 The other feature is the continuation of the western offshoots of 

 the West Spitsbergen Current which flow slowly southward beneath 

 the East Greenland Current and which is sometimes called the Return 

 Atlantic Current. 



