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ON Monday last Sir W. Martin Conway delivered a lecture before the Royal Geographical Society, in which he described the principal results of his second expedition to Spitsbergen, undertaken in conjunction with Mr. E. J. Garwood, in July and August 1897. It will be remembered that in the previous summer Sir Martin Conway, with several companions, for the first time explored, with any thoroughness, certain parts of the interior of the main island of Spitsbergen, throwing much new light on the physical features of the island and their mode of origin. In that year the principal attention was directed to the country south of Ice Fiord, between it and Bell Sound, the result being to show that this region was by no means the ice-clad country it had previously been considered. The principal object of last year's expedition was to examine a new section of the interior, north of Ice Fiord, which was still believed by some to be covered with an ice-sheet similar to that found in Greenland. Two districts in particular were chosen as the field of operations, the one (named by the lecturer Garwood Land) occupying the area between the extremities of Wijde Bay and Ice Fiord in the west arid the sea in the east; the other lying west of the line joining the heads of Wijde Bay and Ice Fiord. For this second region Sir Martin Conway has revived the old English whalers' name for Spitsbergen as a whole-King James Land.
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The Spitsbergen Glaciers. Nature 57, 472–473 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057472b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057472b0