Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . CAPE CLEVELAND. Typical Bastion Headland. the gulf, and swept rapidly past the shores of thesouth side of Red-Cliff Peninsula. A few miles aboveCape Cleveland, we passed the dazzling mass of theFan Glacier, with its almost mathemat
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . CAPE CLEVELAND. Typical Bastion Headland. the gulf, and swept rapidly past the shores of thesouth side of Red-Cliff Peninsula. A few miles aboveCape Cleveland, we passed the dazzling mass of theFan Glacier, with its almost mathematically perfectsemicircular face, and equally mathematically per-fect semicircular delta in front. From here on toKarnah—Cape Ackland, as well as it is possible toidentify it on the charts,—the south coast of Red-CliffPeninsula is made up of a succession of semicircular Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 389 deltas, pushed out from the shore in front of a seriesof hanging glaciers, and formed by the debris broughtdown by the rushing currents from these glaciers in. FAN GLACIER. early summer. So strikingly regular is the contourof these deltas, that the Eskimos have given to thema name which means eyebrow.
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