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The south-going polar stream carries enormous ice-masses close 

 past the Naze, and wide stretches of open channels are often caused 

 by special conditions of the currents. Strong westerly storms drive 

 the ice-masses at times as far to the eastward as one can see from 

 the Naze. In still weather the ice returns in to the coast. There is nearly 

 always movement among the ice off this Naze. In consequence of 

 the very open water Syttenkilometernæsset is one of the places on 

 the coast which the bears frequent in their wanderings and the bear- 

 hunting must have been good. The fairway, even for large vessels, 

 goes close in to the land. The shore to the east is densely en- 

 cumbered bj' screw-ice, but it would be possible to land with the 



Fig. IS. Settlement on Syttenkilometcrnæ.s.set. 

 (Chart prepared by (iusT.w Tiio.stüup and the author). 



kayak or drive the sledge up at the south shore. The depth of 

 water in the large bay south of the Naze is certainly small, as 

 we have never seen very large ice-clumps driven in there. When 

 frozen over, this bay with its even ice has afforded excellent sledging 

 for the Eskimos. We found almost no drift-wood. When we con- 

 sider the time which has passed since human beings have lived up 

 there, the transport of drift-wood seems thus to have been ex- 

 tremely small, even if we allow that the ice must have taken much 

 away again, when no one was there to bring it into safety up on 

 the beach. Furthest out on the Naze a rocky knoll 13 meters high 

 gives an excellent view and large hollows on the north side of the 

 cliff serve in the summer time as good reservoirs for the water 

 from the snow. Further, there is a small pond, now dried up, near 



