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sulas lies the important Umanak [45]
Fjord, which is one of the chief sources
of the icebergs drifting down the Green-
land coast. Seven active glaciers
in icefalls
descend from the inland ice cap into
the branches of this body of water which
are of sufficient importance to receive
names on the Danish chart, while a
half-dozen others are considered too
insignificant for special designation.
More bergs come out of Umanak
Fjord than from Disko Bay, though
the latter receives the discharge of the
great Jakobshavn glacier and icefall
which is the most active ice stream
in Greenland and perhaps in the
world, its summer rate of motion
being stated to be 150 feet (3) per
day. [See Northern and Disko I.
and iceberg off Godhavn.]