Sketch map of Torngat Mountains, Northern Labrador. GLACIATION OF THE TORNGAT MOUNTAINS
and from the McGill-Carnegie Arctic Research Program. Transport from Goose Bay to and from the Torngats was generously provided by che British Newfoundland Corporation. Upper Kangalaksiorvik Lake, some 15 miles west of Seven Islands Bay in latitude 5P022‘N., was selected for the site of a base camp,...
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| Summary: | and from the McGill-Carnegie Arctic Research Program. Transport from Goose Bay to and from the Torngats was generously provided by che British Newfoundland Corporation. Upper Kangalaksiorvik Lake, some 15 miles west of Seven Islands Bay in latitude 5P022‘N., was selected for the site of a base camp, and this was established with the aid of a Beaver aircraft on July 27. In addition, the Beaver was able to lay two food and fuel caches, one at the northeast end of Lower Komaktorvik Lake, and the other by the shore of a small lake on the Quebec side of the ‘boundary, some I5 miles west of base camp. From these three centres an area of about 600 square miles, principally within the “Central Range ” of the Torngats, was reconnoitred on foot. Despite the short and relatively stormy season, it proved possible to complete a large part ‘of the original program, although an investigation of the cirque glaciers was curtailed by the persistence throughout the summer of a considerable thickness of the 1955-56 snow cover on their surfaces. After |
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