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with, pressed up on the shore round the points, whereas in the 
creeks there is fjord ice along the coast, which circumstance played 
no small part as regards the sledging of the expedition. Conditions 
similar to those at Germania Land are met with on the northeast 
coast of Peary Land, between Kap Clarence Wyckoff and Kap John 
Flagler. 
In other parts of the outer coast the drift ice, however, on long 
stretches reaches so close inland that all ice outside the tidal crack 
must, at any rate now and then, be included in the drifting, and 
consequently only the ice foot remains. In such places the foreshore 
falls rather steeply towards the coast line, in which manner the ice 
foot, with the prevalent northwest winds, becomes situated within a 
lee belt, where the snow accumulates. At exceptionally high water 
the flood wave may still, for brief periods, send a little water across 
the ice foot; it then becomes absorbed by the accumulated snow, 
which in that manner is converted into ice. Now and then it also 
happens that the storm forces the drift ice away from the shore, so 
that for the time being an open coast water appears, from which 
the spray may be flung across the ice foot and contribute towards 
its growth; or it happens that the drift ice at high water is crushed 
on the ice foot and places itself along its outer part like a small 
pressure ridge, in which manner the conditions for the accumulation 
of snow and thus also for the growth of the ice foot become still 
more favourable. 
Towards the end of the winter the ice foot, in such places, stands 
with a perpendicular wall of ice, which at low water is 2—3 metres 
high, and which thus projects well above the highest water. 
An ice foot of this kind may be met with on the outer coast of 
Hovgaards ©, Holms Land and part of Amdrups Land, as well as 
on the coast southeast of Nakkehoved. 
Where the coast rises perpendicularly from the sea without a 
foreshore, the ice foot cannot form. Steep rocky walls facing the sea, 
without the slightest indication of a foreshore in front of them, is 
undoubtedly a rarely occurring phenomenon in Northeast Greenland, 
when rocky wall is taken in the ordinary sense of the word. With 
rocky walls we must, however, in this case class the steep walls 
formed by the inland ice through the breaking off of icebergs, and 
these steep walls are to be found in several places in Northeast 
Greenland, at Soranerbræen and Brede Bre (Dove Bugt), probably 
also in a few places in the southern part of Jokelbugten, on Hov- 
gaards Ø and on two stretches of over 30 kilometres between Am- 
drups Land and Nordost-Rundingen. 
On long stretches of Northeast Greenland, between the parallels 
