SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 



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The Glaciers. Cape Alexander to Cape York 



The <:laciers situated between Cape Alexander and Cape York 

 are so far north that the most of them are blocked by sea ice but 



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The tidewater Glaciers from Cape Alexander to Cape York 



FniiRE 4<i. — There is a total of 54 tidewater glaciers in this section of which only I'S 

 are known as occasional iceberg producers. Most of the glaciers are sluggish and 

 small. The important iceberg-discharging glaciers numbering only five are : Morris 

 •Tessup, B( wdoin, Melville-Tracy-Farquar, Moltke, and Pitugflk. The annual produc- 

 tion is estimated to be 300 icebergs. 



11 the vicinity of Wolstenholme Sound this is not the case except dur- 

 11^- the winter months. A grand total of 161 glaciers, large and 

 11 ill, extend out from the ice cap along this highly irregular coast 



