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HOBBS— CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 



[April 22, 



In the year 1890 Gustav Nordenskiold made a journey between 

 Horn Sound and Bell Sound on the west coast, and found behind 

 the sharp peaks bordering the coast an ice surface almost without 

 crevasses or nunataks.^* Upon the northwest coast no sharp peaks 

 or comb-ridges are found, but there is a low plateau with deep, 

 narrow valleys similar to the west coast of Norway where it 



Fig. II. Map of the southwestern margin of an extension of the inland- 

 ice of New Friesland (after Conway). 



reaches the sea near the North Cape. All the rock surfaces are 



glaciated. 



The inland-ice of North East Land reaches the sea upon the 

 southern and eastern coasts, but is surrounded by a hem of land 

 upon the north and west. Over the surface of this ice Nordenskiold 



"O. Nordenskiold, /. c, p. 52. 



