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right up to the shore, do we find the conditions necessary for the 
forming and breaking loose of icebergs. 
Icebergs are formed in Dove Bugt from Soranerbræen, Bistrups 
Bræ and Storstrømmen; in the southern part of Jøkelbugten from 
Kofoed-Hansens Bræ and a couple of smaller glaciers, which pene- 
trate Hertugen af Orleans Land; on the outer coast of Hovgaards Ø; 
from a couple of small glaciers in Ingolf Fjord; from the two long 
ice walls between Antarctic Bugt and Nordost-Rundingen; in Hagens 
Fjord and — according to FREUCHEN — in the interior of Independence 
Fjord from Academy Bræ and Nyeboes Bræ as well from a couple 
of small glaciers near Kap Grundloven. 
On the east and south coast of Peary Land icebergs are, on the 
whole, hardly formed in any place. 
The production of icebergs in the above-mentioned localities is 
altogether very small; only in Dove Bugt (Storstrømmen) and pre- 
sumably also in Independence Fjord (Academy Bræ and Nyeboes 
Bræ) is the production considerable and as great as in the larger 
glaciers of West Greenland. 
Ås indicated in the map the bulk of the icebergs of Storstrømmen 
drift away through the sound between Edvards Ø and Carl Hegers 
О. In the interior of the fjord") in front of the glacier wall of Stor- 
strømmen, there are, it is true, many icebergs, but they only occur 
singly and scattered at great intervals. West of Edvards Ø, where 
the fjord narrows, nearly 15 km south-south-east of Bræøerne, the 
icebergs are, on the other hand, so densely packed, that they almost 
form a regenerated glacier, whick closes the fjord like a plug. 
Further out in the sound, between Edvards Ø and Carl Hegers Ø, 
this collected mass of ice again dissolves into single icebergs, which 
are here so densely packed that only with some difficulty is it pos- 
sible to make progress between them on a sledge. Not till east of 
Edvards ©, where the sound opens up towards Dove Bugt, do the 
icebergs spread out so much that it becomes at all possible to keep 
the individual icebergs apart, when trying to count them. 
The area on which the icebergs are densely packed is nearly 
100 square kilometres, and so it is not unreasonable to estimate 
their total number as exceeding ten thousand. 
From the sound south of Edvards Ø and partly also from the 
other sounds in the belt of rocks and islands round Teufelkap the 
icebergs spread over Dove Bugt. Part of the icebergs pass towards 
northeast and escape into the sea in the sounds past Danmarks 
Havn, while others pass in a southerly direction, and are stranded 
1) In 1912 this fjord was named by me Borgfjorden (the Castle Fjord). 
