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Island and the West Greenland Current off Cape Farewell. This 

 station was therefore selected as the southern end of the longitudmal 

 section extending northward to station 2838, located on Davis Strait 

 Ridge at 65°48' N., 57°30' W. It will be observed from table 2 that 



Figure 54.— Temperature profile, South Wolf Island, Labrador, to Cape Farewell, Greenland, July 24 to 



28, 1938. 



the westward transport of water across the northern end of this 

 section is practically the same as the volume of flow of the West Green- 

 land Current past Cape Farewell, and that both are larger than the 

 Labrador Current off South Wolf Island, although the westward- 



