Archive image from page 72 of Discovery reports (1934) Discovery reports discoveryreports09inst Year: 1934 HYDROLOGY OF THE BRANSFIELD STRAIT 61 the north-east setting current. Similarly an accumulation of pack-ice to the south-west might also have had the same effect. Normally, however, the north-easterly current piles up water against the South Shetland Islands and through the various narrow straits separating these islands. Thus the main part of the current along the South Shetland Islands sets to the north-east and Fig. 67. Diagrammatic sketch of circulation round the South Shetland I
Archive image from page 72 of Discovery reports (1934) Discovery reports discoveryreports09inst Year: 1934 HYDROLOGY OF THE BRANSFIELD STRAIT 61 the north-east setting current. Similarly an accumulation of pack-ice to the south-west might also have had the same effect. Normally, however, the north-easterly current piles up water against the South Shetland Islands and through the various narrow straits separating these islands. Thus the main part of the current along the South Shetland Islands sets to the north-east and Fig. 67. Diagrammatic sketch of circulation round the South Shetland Islands and position of overfalls. some passes through the individual straits of the islands curving to the south-west on the northern shores of the islands, causing an anticlockwise circulation. This is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 67.
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