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SPITSBERGEN 



CHAP. XXV 



Good equipment can also be bought at the Army and Navy 

 Stores ; but many things may be bought in Norway as well 

 as in London, and for a less price. Very thick woollen 

 clothes and underclothes should of course be taken, though 

 Spitsbergen affords little opportunity for changing. 



We come now to consider what opportunities for explora- 

 tion Spitsbergen offers to a summer visitor. The country 

 may be divided and considered under four categories — the 



INLAND ICE-SHEET OF NEW FRIESI.AND FROM HINLOUPEN STRAIT. 



coasts, the mountains, the inland ice-sheets, and the snow- 

 free valleys. The coasts have all been explored, and nothing 

 remains to be done with them except by really expert sur- 

 veyors and experienced men of science. The coast mountains, 

 however, are little known, and only the easy ones have been 

 climbed. I hope next year to publish a full account of what 

 has been done in Spitsbergen in the way of mountaineering, 

 and then any one can see for himself what remains to be 

 done. The best climbing is to be found near the sea along 



