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the west coast. The limit of submergence is very clearly defined
and appears to lie between 460 and 500 feet above the present sea
level. In the former submerged areas the valleys draining to the
west coast are filled with what appears to be terraced outwash
deposits. Following a period of foggy weather we returned to
Hall Beach with the dogs and sledge aboard a Dakota aircraft
on July 18.
We flew to Sarcpa Lake on July 24 while Kalaut returned
temporarily to Igloolik to hunt walrus. Between July 24 and August 5
two foot traverses, each lasting several days, were made northwest
and southwest of the lake to areas which it had not been poseible to
visit in 1957. We returned to Hall Beach by aircraft on August 5.
Kalaut was waiting for us at Hall Beach and on August 8
we travelled to Igloolik in the l6-foot aluminum boat we had used
in 1957. In contrast to the previous summer we found very little
drift ice alone the east coast. Brief visits were made to the
Eskimo settlements at Kingmitokvik and Pinger Point. Between
August 9 and 14 we visited Richards and Quilliam bays. In the
vicinity of the Bouverie Islands the limit of marine submergence
was found to be approximately 330 feet, considerably lower than
on the west ooast and at points farther south on the east coast of
the peninsula.
We made a particularly interesting foot traverse
across the peninsula from Mogg Bay to Franklin Bay between
August 15 and 21. Travelling with the assistance of pack dogs we
passed through areas of Palaeozoic sedimentary lowland, fluted
till plain, and Precambrian crystalline upland to the outwashfilled
valley leading to Franklin Bay. Glacial features in the area
indicate that the direction of the last glacial movement was from
the east-southeast toward the west-northwest. In addition,
erratics of sedimentary rock which OCcur in the interior appear to
be similar to the underlyinG country rock on the east side of the
peninsula. These erratics decrease in number toward the west
providing additional evidence of an east to west movement. We
returned to MogG Bay on August 25 and to Igloolik a day later.
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On August 27 it was necessary to return to Hall Beach
to obtain mOre supplies. On the followins day the Fisheries
Research Board1s vessel M.V. Calanus arrived at Hall Beach from
Rowley Island, and on August 29 we returned to Igloolik aboard her.
We left Igloolik by 22 -foot freighter canoe for Fury
and Hecla Strait on Aucust 31. At Northeast Cape, near the eastern entranc
the strait. we visited a cairn built in 1956 by personnel from