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Fig. 2 is a satellite picture taken on the same day. The intersection of the
two fiducial marks at the picture center is just south of the Magdalen Islands.
Again the fast ice along the north coast of Prince Edward Island can be
seen although in some places where it is only half a mile wide it is barely
distinguishable. Some of the larger floes north of the Island are clearly
resolved.
The contrast of the ice floes seen near the center of the ice “peninsula” is
much more striking in the satellite picture than in the aerial photograph.
Cloud cover is extensive over the areas east of the ice field, and completely
obscures Newfoundland.
This picture was taken with the 76° lens on tiros iv; it shows an area of
approximately 200,000 square miles. By comparison, the aircraft mosaic shows
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