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S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat -Marion" in Front of a 

 West Greenland Glacier 



FiGUEE 47. — Tl^e United States Coast patrol boat, Marion, Auuust it. lOliS, a few 

 hundred yards off the glacier shown on Figui-e 46. The front wall was estimated 

 to rise about To feet above the level of the fji rd. The rough and ja-^ged top 

 surface of the glacier indicates the formative stresses and strains set up by the 

 ice stream as it moves across the foreland to the fjord. Several projectiles were 

 tired from the Marion's 3-inch gun causing little apparent fragmentation of the 

 front wall. (Official photograph of the Marion expedition.) 



Side View of a West Greenland iceberg 



Figure 48. — a side view of the glacier shown on Figure 40, looking northward. The 

 Marion can be seen far behw in the left foreground. This aiirlioragc is known as 

 Quervainshavn, in memory of the leader of the Schweizerischen-cJronland expedi- 

 tion, who departed from this point to cross the Greenland ice cap in the summer 

 of 1912. A rock cairn in the foreground just below the brow of the hill marks the 

 encampment of the expedition. (Official photograph, Marion expe<lition. ) 



