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250 metres, and also that the depth of the fjord in this place must 
exceed 250 m!). The distance from Kap Bellevue to the above- 
mentioned part of the face of the glacier, southwest of Bræøerne, is 
nearly 48 kilometres. If the highest rate of motion in this part of 
Storstrømmen is put at-200m a year, which estimate seems to be 
rather high, and if the ablation is put at half a metre a year, which 
on the other hand is presumably rather low, the thickness of the 
ice on the stretch between Kap Bellevue and Sæløen should be 
250 ии > ; = 370 m. 
As the surface of Storstrømmen between Kap Bellevue and Sæl- 
søen does not reach much more than 300 m above the level of the 
sea, one should here meet with a “depth of the fjord” of 70m or 
more. 
In this place I shall not attempt to discuss the fully justified 
objections which can be raised against the above estimate, and 
which render the result uncertain, but simply remark that the result 
ought only to be looked upon as a factor pointing in the direction 
that the ice masses of Storstrømmen fill up a depression, the lowest 
part of which, south of Kap Bellevue—Sælsoen, is everywhere below 
sea level. 
A series of observations thus go to show that Germania Land 
may be looked upon as an island, and so we arrive at the supposition 
that the coast line of the main land from Zachariae’s Isstrom may to 
all intents and purposes be supposed to follow the eastern contour 
of Hertugen af Orleans Land, and to continue from there in a southern 
direction along the east side of Dronning Louises Land, until as far 
as a little south of 76°30’. That the northern part of L. Bistrups 
Bræ conceals a fjord is known from the voyage of 1912—13; but 
the surface of L. Bistrups Bre rises so abruptly towards the south 
that this fjord cannot be supposed to stretch very far south of 76°30’. 
The Coast Sea. 
In Northeast Greenland there is such a great external difference 
between the sea proper and the fjords, bays and sounds of the coast 
land that in the following I have elected to treat them separately. 
The most conspicuous characteristic of the coast sea is the drift 
ice, whereas that of the fjords and bays is the comparatively smooth 
fjord ice. The border line between the drift ice and the solid ice is 
sharply defined, and even though it may vary a good deal, not only 
') See the above-mentioned treatise in "Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening”. 
