Greenland, 1917
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(3) 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