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peninsula projecting from Germania Land in a southern direction, 
and we took it for granted that the southern point of the latter must 
be the Kap Bismarck of the Germaniaexpedition. Also the Belgica- 
Expedition of 1905 had committed the same error, so that already 
before the return of the Danmark-Ekspedition the name had become 
historical as the designation of a locality different. from the original 
Kap Bismarck. 
The Germans passed across Stormbugten (Sturmbai) in April 1870, 
in other words at a period when the country was covered with snow; 
it must upon the whole have been difficult for them at any point 
of their sledge route to see the present Kap Bismarck, which only 
has a height of 63m. A comparison between the German map and 
that of the Danmark-Ekspedition, scale 1 : 500000 by the way leaves 
no doubt that the Kap Bismarck of the Germaniaexpedition “das 
Kap welches die Dove-Bai östlich begrenzt”) is the southernmost 
spur of the Harefjeld of the Danmark-Ekspedition. The geographical 
interest attached to the name Kap Bismarck, however, made it 
desirable that it should correspond to an important locality along 
the outer coast, as was also the conception of the Germaniaexpedition; 
I have, therefore, considered it more correct to let the name remain 
in the spot to which it had been moved by chance in the case of 
the Belgica-Expedition, as well as in that of the Danmark-Ekspedition, 
instead of fixing it to the original place about 12km up the fjord. 
In the year 1905 Duke РнилррЕ of Orleans?) with his ship the 
“Belgica”, the captain of which was the well-known polar explorer, 
A. DE GERLACHE, succeeded in reaching the coast of Greenland at 
Kap Bismarck. On July 27th the Duke went ashore on the small 
island, Maroussia (see Pl. II), south of Kap Bismarck. From here the 
“Belgica” sailed north along the outer coast of Germania Land as 
far as Ile de France, where the expedition once more set foot upon 
land. The “Belgica” now went further north along the solid ice, 
but turned back on July 31st at 78°16’ and sailed once more in a 
southerly direction. On August 4th the expedition once more set 
foot upon Ile de France, on August 5th on Kap Bismarck, and after 
that the “Belgica” went further south along the coast. 
During the short stay in the waters north of Kap Bismarck the 
expedition seized the opportunity of making a croquis of those 
regions which were at that time totally unknown. But time was 
1) Die zweite deutsche Nordpolfahrt, Bd. I, p. 491. 
2) Duc d'Orléans: Croisière Océanographique dans la Mer de Grønland 1905, 
Bruxelles 1907. 
