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and the islands being covered with moraine stones. Scored marks were 

 found; only, however, in one direction, that leading out of the fjord. 



From Little Diabasholm, the highest point of which lies but 20 

 metres above the sea, an excellent view is obtained out over the base 

 of Independence Fjord; even from here it appears unlikely that the 

 Peary Channel should exist. Great Diabasholm reaches a height of 120 

 metres. 



At a point in the gently curving bay west of Diabasnæs the diabase 

 crops out again. Here, by the way, in front of the steeply sloping heights, 

 lie rows of high mounds of moraine deposit, similar to those found in 

 Danmarks Fjord. 



Camp at 81°54' N., ?2°25'W. 



The group called Lyngeholmene consists of 19 islands, some large 

 some small; some of these were seen by Peary. All are of diabase, and 

 on all we found erratic blocks of sandstone. The vegetation was quite 

 insignificant. The largest island, that on the east of the group, is 60 

 metres high, the remainder are lower, from 10 to 20 metres. The com- 

 paratively large peninsula, which is connected with the mainland by 

 an isthmus only a few metres wide, is 200 metres high. A large number 

 of icebergs lay about between the islands. 



From Chr. Erichsens Bræ a tongue of ice runs down towards the 

 coast. The numerous rows of terminal moraines here suggested frequent 

 and sudden changes in the glacier. 



18th June (Lat. 81°48' N., long. 33°25' W.). 



The inner part of the fjord was now becoming more and more closely 

 packed with icebergs or the hybrid „sikosak". We had now reached the 

 point where this lay firm and unbroken. Between the sea ice and the 

 sikosak there was an abrupt change of level, amounting to 7 metres, 

 the same as was noted in the case of the pieces of sikosak found at Hagens 

 Fjord. Off Academy Bræ and Nyeboes Bræ the icebergs lay closely 

 packed. 



The entrance to Hagens Fjord, which is bounded on the north by 

 the low flat spit of Cape Ludovica, is bounded on the west by Cape Peter 

 Hendrik, which slopes steeply both towards both Hagens Fjord and 

 Independence Fjord. This country we did not explore at all, as we were 

 forced to subsist on such game as we could find, and therefore naturally 

 kept to the north coast. From Cape Peter Hendrik, which is 50 — 100 

 metres high, the coast line towards the west is formed by a continuous 

 range of sediment rock, increasing in height towards the west. The part 

 about Cape Grundloven, which dominates the whole coast, is about 300 

 metres high. Immediately to the west of Cape Grundloven, three small 

 'glaciers crop out through the rock formation, two of them calving con- 

 siderably out into the fjord, the third, however, being shut off from 

 the fjord by a great terminal moraine. Immediately west of this again 



