Abstract
The present work is an exposition of a study made of the situation of the ice front in the glaciers of West Greenland, based on the information in the literature, diaries and in picture material. It is also a comparative study of that material for the purpose of forming a picture, fragmentary though it may be, of the ice shrinkage along the margin of the inland ice and at certain isolated glaciers in the various regions investigated.
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The present work is an exposition of a study made of the situation of the ice front in the glaciers of 'Vest Greenland, based on the information in the literature, diaries and in picture material
In addition to the information discovered on the margin of the inland ice and its offshoots, some particulars have become available about changes in smaller, isolated glaciers, for which reason the latter are included in the survey when the apprapriate districts are being dealt with
I have made this separation on account of the lobes running from the inland ice and on the assumption that in the marginal region of the inland ice north and south of the Ilimaussaq peninsula there are two different forms of terrain to be considered l): 1) southwards the broad foreland with the deep fiords, the vigorous alpine relief and, in the inland ice, the many nunataqs, 2) northwards there are the narrow strip of land, the flat gneiss terrain and only few nunataqs emerging through the inland ice
Summary
The present work is an exposition of a study made of the situation of the ice front in the glaciers of 'Vest Greenland, based on the information in the literature, diaries and in picture material. 65° N on the West coast of Greenland It has been impossible, to give a collective description of the entire lang ice front through the districts of Julianehaab, Frederikshaab and Godthaab; the only localities considered here are those where measurable changes were to be found and about which the literature contains earlier information. There are two groups af information about West Greenland : 1) The Norse literature, treating of the period from about 1000 to about 1300, and 2) the accounts from periods af discovery and colonization from 1721 up to the present time It may be said at once about the former group, the Norse Period, that the written sources tell us almost nothing about the glaciers and the inland ice af Greenland. THALBITZER, 'V.: Eskimo, in IIandbook of American Indian Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40, Part 1, pp.969-1069, 1911
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