Word: torngat
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From here he intends to work up along the coast and into every fjord for about 200 miles, ice condition permitting, making short trips inland to the Torngat Mountains. The furthest point to be aimed at is Cape Mugford, just south of Ungava...
...three main purposes of the expedition are to measure and take cross-sections of the Labrador Current, to bring back flowers from the Torngat region, which escaped the glacier many thousands of years ago, and to determine the nature of the fish in the more northern fjords. Iselin and Keogh will take oceanographic sections of the Labrador Current to try to determine what causes it and where it comes from and goes to. Drift bottles will be set and cards put inside. They will ask the finders to mail them to Dr. Bigelow and say where they were found...
Woodworth and Ames will be working for Dr. Fernald and will collect and study the growth of flowers in the Torngat country and also the fauna in the fjords...
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