Greenland, 1917
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(13) ice on the pond, but it was evi- dently more than six feet thick. Steenstrup's Glacier forms the coast line for more than Twenty miles south of Cape Seddon. Its sur- face is a maze of seracs and its front is vertical. Evidently it is active and many bergs come from it yearly. I should say that its front edge rose 30 to 60 feet above the level of the sea, but we did not approach near enough to it for a good estimate. At its northern edge beside the main- land back of Cape Seddon the valley looks as if it might give a route descent from the ice cap. Several nunataks rise into the glacier.