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MAEION EXPEDITIOIST TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



Great Karajak Glacier Just after a Major Calving 



FiGUHE 57. — Tlie front wall of Great Kara.iak Glacier immediately after a great 

 calving that took place on August 18. 1892. The major calvings, when several 

 hundred yards of the glacier end breaks away, occur on the average of twice a 

 month, during summer, near or at the dates of spring tides. The icebergs floating 

 in the f.iord were calved from the right and left of the glacier's front, as can be 

 seen by comparing this view with that taken sometime previously. (Thotograph 

 by E. von Drygalski. ) 



Great Karajak Glacier Eight Days after a Major Calving 



KiUUE r>S. — The front wall of Great Karajak Glacier eight days after the major 

 calving of August 13, 1S92. A comparison of Figure 5S with Figure 57 strikingly 

 portravs (be rapid rate which the end of Great Karajak Glacier in eight days has 

 pushed" outward into the fjord. The west Greenland glaciers, with a recorded rate 

 of 05 feet per day, are probal)Iy the fastest moving ice streams in the world. 

 (Photograph by E. von Drygalski.) 



