coast. Its granitic sides form a forbidding shore and rise abruptly by from the sea more than 1200 feet, climinating in a peak 3467 feet above the water. Frost action has formed in the cliff small arches like the great Washington arch of the Yosemite Valley are stopped at Upnisk by the advice of American Arctic tra- vellers of experience to gather infor- mation regarding ice conditions in Melville Bay, our own experience was that the people there knew little or nothing of value on the subject. They said that the preceding winter had been one of exceptional se- verity and that the bay was pro- bably full of ice, but they had no source of definite information.