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ligger Taagen over Havet. I Sundet sees et Par Fartojer 

 tilankers. Det er norske Torskefiskere, der her gjøre et 

 rigt Fiske. Sluppen er d< n bekjendte :c Isbjørn", der i 



rocky moimt that ironi 



or chasm. In the view. 



this ravine. To the lett. rises the island of Vogelsang. OS' 



west to east exhibits a long rent 

 we see how the light falls info 



Fig. it. Cloven Cliff. 



1871 førte Weyprecht og Paver og i 1X72 Grev Wilczek 

 paa deres Polarfærder til Spidsbergen og Østhavet. 



Om Aftenen den 16de August sejlede Expeditionen 

 ned gjenneni Smeerenberg-Sundet, hvor vi saa vort største 

 Isberg, r. 2.'! Meter hojt, staaende paa. Grund der hvor 

 South-Gal begynder. Vi passerede South-Gat efter det i 

 1818 af Beechey og Franklin optagne Kart, og ankrede 

 ved Midnat i Magdalena Bay, indenfor •■Eegravelses- 

 pladsen". 



Magdalena Bays storartede Glacialnatur er udmerket 



the islands, a dense fog lies over the sea. In the Sound, 

 one or two vessels are seen riding at 'anchor. They are 

 Norwegian >hips engaged in the Spitzbergen cod-iisliery. 

 wliicli hereabouts is very productive. One of the vessels is 

 the "Isbjørn", the well-kuown cutter that in 1871 to ok Wey- 

 precht and Paver, and in 1872 Count Wilczek on their ex- 

 ploratory voyages to Spitzbergen and the Barents Sea. 



In the eveiiing of the 16th ol' August, the Expedition 

 steamed through Smeerenberg Sound, and we bad a line 

 view of the largest iceberg seen on any of our cruises. It 

 bad grounded in the inner part of South Gat. lts ele- 

 vatiiin was estimated at about70feet. We steered through 

 South Gat by the chart constructed in 1818 hy Beechey 

 and Franklin, and east anchor in Magdalena Bay, within 

 the "burial ground." 



The grand glacial scenery of Magdalena Bay is ad- 



