A salinity-temperature survey of Fram Strait in September 1985 extending to north of 81 ¿N demonstrated the western branch of the West Spitsbergen Current flowing northwest and then west, mainly south of 81 ¿N. There also was a southwestward recirculation from the eastern branch of the West Spitsbergen Current. Baroclinic flow of warm water northward through 81 ¿N was negligible or zero. Some doubt is cast on past flow diagrams based on core analysis which show the western branch of the West Spitbergen Current coursing northward to 83 ¿N. One of a probable line of mesoscale eddies is described in some detail. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1988