Scottish geographical magazine . August as compared with the pre^ious month. A + sigiiindicates that the width of the ice stream has increasefl as comparedwith the month preceding. Retreat of the Ice ix 60° to 80°. Latitude. May. June. July. August. 60 6 + 2 29 7 61 5 + 1 16 5 62 + 1 + 2 14 1 63 + 2 2 9 9 64 4 + 2 31 + 13 65 9 17 25 + S 66 37 16 46 67 67 24 41 10 121 68 25 64 30 57 69 32 40 63 36 70 33 39 48 44 71 7 28 82 53 72 34 20 84 44 73 26 48 70 23 74 31 32 73 35 75 27 12 61 46 76 26 29 17 59 77 41 2 + 1 76 78 59 3 + 9 56 79 41 + 9 + 5 31 80 ... 5 + 9 The difterence betwee
Scottish geographical magazine . August as compared with the pre^ious month. A + sigiiindicates that the width of the ice stream has increasefl as comparedwith the month preceding. Retreat of the Ice ix 60° to 80°. Latitude. May. June. July. August. 60 6 + 2 29 7 61 5 + 1 16 5 62 + 1 + 2 14 1 63 + 2 2 9 9 64 4 + 2 31 + 13 65 9 17 25 + S 66 37 16 46 67 67 24 41 10 121 68 25 64 30 57 69 32 40 63 36 70 33 39 48 44 71 7 28 82 53 72 34 20 84 44 73 26 48 70 23 74 31 32 73 35 75 27 12 61 46 76 26 29 17 59 77 41 2 + 1 76 78 59 3 + 9 56 79 41 + 9 + 5 31 80 ... 5 + 9 The difterence between the position of the ice in two summermonths or other fixed period by no means gives a measure of the quantityremoved by ice-melting, because the whole body of ice is moving south-south-west at a mean ?selocity of ten miles per day, so that the supply is 288 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. constantly being renewed. To obtain an exact for computationwe should require to know much more than we do about the velocity of. Fig. 2.—The currents in the North Sea ami Northern Sea (Iroiii llellaiid-Haiiseu andNanseus observations). The thick arrows along the West Coast of Norway show theGulf Stream. Off Greenland and East Iceland the Polar Stream can be seen goingSouth. the Greenland drift in different parts of its area. The values givenabove are simply a measure of the area which has been cleared of icefrom month to month, based on data for the twelve years zone of maxinuim ice-melting, as is well known, is in the GREENLAND SEA : ITS SUMMER CLIMATE AND ICE DISTRIBUTION. 289 vicinity of Denmark Strait between the north of Iceland and secondary area of activity is shown north of Jan Mayen, and in theseas to the east of Spitzbergen is another region chaiacteiised by greatice-melting in summer. On the other hand, south of 66^ South, andin general in high latitudes as well as on the western coast ofSpitzbergen and due south of that island, there is littl
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