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HAGEN shows us a glacier which projects out into the fjord, whereas 
Glacier I stops short of the water. 
In Medd. om Grønl. LI, p. 361, FREUCHEN writes about Glacier I: 
“From Chr. Erichsen's Bræ a tongue of ice runs down towards the 
coast”. The expression here used by FREUCHEN hints at the possi- 
bility of the glacier projecting through a valley so far down towards 
the coast that only an inconsiderable foreland is left between the 
coast line and the front of the glacier. 
The distance from the cairn to the coast in front of Glacier I is 
according to FREUCHEN's map about 19 km. Consequently the “siko- 
sak”, under the presuppositions made, conceals the lowest lying part 
of the foreshore up to an altitude of about 7 metres. 
In order to enable HAGFN to apprehend the existence of a fore- 
land in front of the glacier, the visible part of the latter, in a 
favourable light, must have a vertical angular extent of at least 
1 minute. To this corresponds over a distance of 19 to 20 km a level 
difference of 6 metres. In a less favourable light, as for instance 
haze or a light snow drift, and especially under the oft-recurring 
disturbances of the refraction (mirages) prevalent in calm weather 
immediately above the sea ice, a foreland many times as high as 
this one may be quite lost to view. There is, consequently, nothing 
repugnant to reason in the supposition that in front of Glacier I 
there may be an even rather considerable foreland, though HAGEN 
could not possibly see it. 
The fact of the Marie Sophie Bræ being identical with Glacier I 
on FREUCHEN's map is further borne out by a peculiarity in the coast 
contour of Heïlprin Land. On the already mentioned PI. IV HAGEN 
has delineated a projection of the coast line immediately east of the 
Marie Sophie Bræ. East of Glacier I FREUCHEN has delineated a 
peninsula, f (Fig. 60), and in Medd. om Grenl. LI, p. 361, he gives 
the height of this as 200 metres. Seen from Mylius-Erichsen’s Cairn - 
this very peninsula must look like a projection of the coast line, such 
as indicated by HAGEN. The peculiar inner contour of the peninsula 
f оп FREUCHEN’s map HAGEN apparently has not been aware of, and 
this harmonizes well with the fact that also the details of the coast 
in front of Glacier I have escaped him. 
According to the above the Marie Sophie Bre must be sup- 
posed to be identical with Glacier I on FREUCHEN’s map. In the first 
published map of these regions (the map of the Danmark-Ekspedition, 
Medd. om Gronl. XLVI, Pl. IV) the name must consequently in the 
main be considered correctly placed? 
With absolute certainty the question as to what is to be under- 
stood by Marie Sophie Breen can hardly be settled, and besides the 
