416 I. P. Koch. 
at the mouth of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden and at the mouth of Frederick 
E. Hyde Fjord: 
Thus in the main the quantity of snow increases on the ice 
from the coast outwards in the chief direction of the wind, up to a 
certain limit, but if one considers the individual cases, a number of 
apparent deviations from the general rule are to be encountered. 
Where the coast mountains are very steep, a lee belt forms imme- 
diately below them, and there the snow may accumulate in enormous 
drifts reaching far across the fjord (Mallemukfjeldet). Where the 
Fig. 101. Accumulation of snow on the ice between Kap Buch and Kap Negri. 
Ardencaple Inlet. May. 
foreshore is very broad and level (Herlufsholms Strand), the deposits 
of snow already begin far up on the foreshore, so that the coast line 
is quite hidden under its cover of snow. 
On the whole the local topographical conditions play a great 
part as far as the direction and velocity of the wind go, and so also 
for the depositing of the snow. Among these factors only one is to 
be mentioned in this connection, that is the case where the snow 
drift meets with a considerable frontal obstacle. Then a lee belt 
forms to the weather side of the obstacle, where the air becomes. 
comparatively still, and where consequently large quantities of snow 
may accumulate. An obstacle of this kind is made by the series of 
islands in Jokelbugten, and here we also meet with the biggest 
accumulations of snow we have encountered on the ice. Presumably, 
Store Koldewey is of similar importance, as far as the deposits of 
snow go, but observations from this place are not forthcoming. 
