19' 



ship's lengths) was 2.3 miles. The height was quite uniformly about 

 45 feet. On the basis that blocky precipitous-sided bergs float in 

 proportions exposed to submerged of 1: 5, it is estimated that the 

 above mass contained 2.56 km.^ This Antarctic type undoubtedly 

 came from a point where the ice-cap flows out on to the sea in a broad 

 strip; it's volume representing about one-fourth of the total annual 

 discharge of one of the largest and most productive of the West 

 Greenland fiord glaciers. The master of the Hudson's Bay steamer 



Fig. 12.— Large flat-top berg sighted September 14, 1940, in 70°45' N., 67°50' W., about 20 miles off River 



Clyde. 



Nascopie sighted the same berg a week prior to the Northland, and 

 stated that it was probably the same one seen by the Nascopie in this 

 region last year. The largest berg ever recorded in the north was also 

 found off the Baffin Land coast, measuring 7 miles by S% miles. 

 (See U. S. Coast Guard Bulletin 19, pt. 3, p. 107.) Although our 

 chain of ice islets was more than 20 miles from the nearest land, and a 

 heavy ocean swell prevailed, two polar bears were sighted cantering 

 along the top of one of the bergs, ^ then disappeared in toward the 

 center, apparently frightened by the sight of the ship. It is believed 

 they had become marooned there as the ice-island had drifted farther 

 and farther away from the shore. 



* Polar bears have been reported in the open sea and more than 100 miles from land. 



