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Abstract
Despite the fact that nearly every arctic expedition has given some record of the ice-foot,1) few direct observations, and hardly any systematic measurements concerning it are available. Most of the brief records we have are from West Greenland and adjacent areas of Arctic America due to the fact that so many sledge journeys in these regions at some time or another have been forced to keep to the ice-foot as the only possible way for further progress with the sledges. Such notes are found i. a. in BENTHAM (1937, Appendix III in SHACKLETON (1937, pp. 328–332)), KOCH (1927, pp. 50–51, and 1945, p. 20), Mac-MILLAN (1925, p. 154), MAURSTAD (1935, p. 10), RASMUSSEN (1919, p. 183), SHACKLETON (1937, for pages see his index). Papers by SMITH (1931, and also 1932), TRANSEHE (1928), and ZUKRIEGEL (1935) contain comprehensive information about the literature regarding sea-ice; cf. also Ice Atlas of the Northern Hemisphere (1952).