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OTTO FIORD, on the north-west coast of Ellesmere Island, extends for about 100 km eastward and north-eastward from Nansen Sound. The tide-water glacier at its head in 81° 20′ N., 84° 40′ W. drains the ice cap between Tanquary Fiord to the south and Phillips Inlet on the north coast of the Island. This ice cap constitutes one of the most extensive, unbroken areas of land ice in the Canadian Arctic, and maintains a general elevation of 1,800 m over an area of about 2,000 km2; the Otto Fiord glacier is by far its largest outlet on the west side. The glacier flows down from the elevation of about 1,800 m to sea-level in a straight valley 35 km long and 4–6 km wide between rugged mountains and nunataks. Neither glacier nor ice cap has been visited on the ground.
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HATTERSLEY-SMITH, G. Rapid Advance of Glacier in Northern Ellesmere Island. Nature 201, 176 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201176a0
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