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MARIOX EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



Fisheries Department are now being prepared for publication, and 

 wlien completed they will materially increase our knowledge of the 

 movement of the pack ice and icel^ergs in Spitsbergen and adjacent 

 waters. 



Franz Josef Land (recently renamed Fridtjof Xansen Land), 

 lying at tlie extreme end of the North Atlantic atmospheric depres- 

 sion, is wholly glaciated and several of its tidewater glaciers produce 

 icebergs stated to reach a height of 60 feet, but the number of bergs 

 is small. The northern half of Novaya Zemlya is also ice decked, 

 with high and wide ice fronts reaching the sea at many points along 



A Tidewater Glacier of Siberia 



FiGuiJR 3:>. — TIkx only lceberg-producii)g glacier in tlie eastern Eurasian sector. 

 'I'liis liiacit r is located on the nortli side of Bennett Island, north of the New 

 Silii^riau Islands, and discharges a few small icebergs. (Photograph taken from 

 the Itussiau hydrographical expedition, 1910-1915.) 



the coast, though its bergs are usually small. Nothing is known 

 regarding the iceberg procluctivity of the west coast of Nichohis II 

 Land. Its east coast, however, is known to have glaciers which pro- 

 (hice icebergs, two or three score having been observed along the 

 sliore, even south wai-d to Chelyuskin Strait in 1913 by the Russian 

 hydrographical e.xpcdition. 



Nicholas II Land, therefore, according to our present limited 

 knowledge, i-anks higher than Spitsbergen and Franz ,Iosef Land 

 as regards iceberg ])roductivity. Bennett Island, made famous by 

 the loss of Baron Toll, is glaciated in its southern half where along 

 the coast few glaciers reach the sea. There is one ice tongue sorae- 

 wliat larger than the others, which ])i-()bably accounts for the few 



