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rounded heights and mountains
or plateau bearing no ice cap. Seracs
abundant in its lower course. I
passed across its upper end (or
beginning) when going over the ice
cap with Knud Rasmussen from
Parker Snow Bay to North Star Bay
12 July, 1916.
Grotto in which we took refuge
on 5 April, 1917, is within a mile of
Cape Dudley Diggs on the south
side of the promontory. Formed
like the others in this region by the ac-
tion of frost in a fault zone. Rock
is greenish black, hornblendic
gneiss. Floor is of sea ice.
Entrance is 2-2½ feet wide and 4½-5