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possibilities mentioned there are others which are improbable, though 
they cannot be condemned as illogical. It might thus be imagined 
that HAGEN considered the “sikosak’’ as a continuous sheet of glacier 
ice, which on the north side of the fjord reached as far as Glacier I, 
and that by the names Marie Sophie Breen and Academy Bræ he 
wished to designate the two glaciers, which fall into the interior of 
the fjord, and which he possibly considered as flowing together and 
in company running far out into the fjord. That the panorama offers 
no support for an interpretation of this kind, and that it does not 
harmonize with HAGEN’s contours at the Marie Sophie Bre (Medd. om 
Grønland XLI, Pl. IV) had to be explained away. 
The circumstance that, as shown by FREUCHEN's Glacier I, there 
is a glacier on Heilprin Land, which as regards position and direction 
harmonizes well with the part of the Marie Sophie Bre shown by 
HAGEN on Pl. IV (Medd. om Gronl. XLI) however makes it the most 
natural solution to rest content with the conception that FREUCHEN’s 
Glacier I and the Marie Sophie Bre are one and the same. 
Editor’s note: As Kommissionen for Ledelsen af de geologiske 
og geografiske Undersøgelser i Grønland are of opinion that the pro- 
bability is that Ihe name “Marie Sophie Bre’? was originally applied to 
the great glacier at the bottom of Independence Fjord, and as in cases 
of doubt regard must first and foremost be paid to the first pioneer who 
has the merit of the discovery, they have decided that in future publica- 
tions issued by them, the name “Marie Sophie Bree” will be placed at 
the end of the glacier at the bottom of Independence Fjord, and that the 
name “M. Ib Nyeboes Bree’ will be used for that part of the glacier 
lying behind, which Mylius-Erichsen had presumably not seen. 
