CHAPTER VI. 
Features of the Geography of Northeast 
Greenland. 
Since the return of the Danmark-Ekspedition in 1908 Northeast 
Greenland has been visited by no less than three Danish expeditions, . 
which more or less covered the same ground as the Danmark-Eks- 
pedition. Through the work of these expeditions our knowledge of 
the geography of Northeast Greenland has not only been extended 
beyond the limits of the discoveries of the Danmark-Ekspedition, 
but as regards one important question, the problem of the Peary 
Channel, the erroneous ideas of the Danmark-Ekspedition have been 
corrected. Consequently it cannot be avoided that in the following 
description I am obliged now and then to draw my material from 
other and newer discoveries than those of the Danmark-Ekspedition. 
When in the following pages my sources are not expressly stated, 
the observations are due to the Danmark-Ekspedition. 
Distribution of Land and Water. The Coast Line. 
After the voyage of the Belgica in 1905 the usual supposition 
was that from the seventy-ninth parallel the coast line followed a 
northwesterly course with a direction towards Navy Cliff, which 
supposition, it is true, rested on a most uncertain foundation, but 
which to some extent was supported by the observations of PEARY 
from Navy Cliff"), and which has been vaguely expressed in the 
then current maps. It was a great surprise to us that the coast line 
from Lamberts Land followed a course, which nearly formed a right 
angle to the direction towards Navy Cliff. The most easterly point 
of Greenland, Nordost-Rundingen (the Northeast Foreland), situated 
at about 81°24’ N. Lat., in that manner came to extend as far as the 
meridian 11°48’ w. of Grw., and the water distance between Green- 
land and Spitzbergen was narrowed down to about 450 km. 
1) ROBERT E. Peary: Northward over the Great Ice, vol. I, p. 352. 
