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the walruses attain a length of 200 cm and a Imnginrof weight of
more tham 300 kg.
The tusk length of males of the Atlantic subspecies averaEes
34-38 cm, and-that of females 27-33.cm; that of males in the Laptev.
34..3(; lie rt.,;ks. 012 adult. ed. m ?je. s .
Sea averages 45-47 cm, and that - of females cm.
•,, MI Laptev ,5e a are 12. cm in cCame.Car anti ritc.,:e. ell maids /if' cm; the rasKs ot ufc,s
are thicker titan those oi 'females by an average of 2-3 cm: rhe males'
• tusks are farther apart at the tips than at the roots, whereas those
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of females are closer together.at the tips. There is considerable
individual variation in the development of the tusk,s. The tusks are
mudh worn down in adults.
The Atlantic walrus is found along the whole of the eastern
coasts of the Canadian Arctic, from Ungava Bay in trie south to illlesmere
Island in the north. Within that region it is common in Hudson
Bay, 2robisher .lay, and Foxe Basin, and around Baffin and Devon Islands;
it is less common in the Arctic islands lying west of Barrow Strait.
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It is also found in Baffin . BayA Davis Strait, and on •the west coast
of Greenland from Cape Kent and Inglefield Land to Holsteinborg .(59 0 N).
We have little information about the range of the-walrus in the waters
of East Greenland; it occurs.in Scoresby Sound and on the northeastern
coast of the island.
In the -.Alropean part of the Atlantic the walrus
is found on drift-ice off the northern coast of Iceland and in the
bays and inlets of Spitzbergen; occasional specimens have been seen
on the ice off the northern coast of Norway. .
• . Ii Soviet territorial waters and waters adjacent thereto, •
Atlantic walruses are found - in the eastern part of the Barents Sea
and in the -ara Sea. In the Franz-Josef Land archipelago their rook- '
eries, on ice and on shore, are found in the inlets, bays, and straits .
of George Land, Alexandra Land, ilohenlohe Island, Cobourg Island,
Gowen Island, Heiss Island, ioldolph Island, the komuli Komsomdrskie
Islands, etç.; they are reported to occur more rarely in Sars Strait, •
on Harley Island and Ommaney Island, in Be Boni:: Strait, etc. They
have been observed on drift-ice in tne region of small ; ,rctic islands
lying south ad southeaA of the rranz-Jouef La1iL archipelago (Vize,
Ushakova, and Schmidt Islitnds). At the northeast lip of i,ovpya - Zemlya
and on neielbouring islands walruses arc conutantly beini; reported
in Techenii and Anna ,ays, at Capes Constantina'and Uelaniya, and
on the Hemukerk and Crane:le guLin;,a of Li animalu are
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