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]\rARION AND GEXER.IL GREENE EXPEDITIONS 



At the surface the coldest water in the west Greenland sector 

 in the summer of 1928 was found in two small widely separated 

 areas as bounded by the 4° isotherm on figure 13 — one near Cape 

 Farewell and the other in Davis Strait about 100 miles west of 



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Figure 13. — Temperatiirc at llif siirfaof July .'iO-St'iJtt'raber ."., lOliS. 



Disko ]^ay. The fact that this water was colder than that adjacent 

 to it is good evidence that it flowed there in a current. Reference to 

 the surface current map (fig. 8) itlentifies both of these pools as 

 Arctic in origin — the one transported around Cape Farewell by the 

 East Greenland Current and the other brought directly from the 



