430 I. P. Koch. 
pedition measure the altitude of an iceberg which was stranded in 
the neighbourhood of Stormkap, in water the depth of which was 
about 90m. The altitude was 36m, which is rather striking, con- 
sidering the shallowness of the water. 
A few table-shaped icebergs, formed from Storstrømmen, must 
as regards their dimensions be reckoned among the largest in Green- 
land. On the other hand the icebergs of Storstrommen have no very 
considerable altitude above the level of the sea; neither in 1906—08 
nor in 1912 have I seen a single iceberg the altitude of which I 
would estimate at 50 m. 
It must be supposed that only a very small part of the icebergs 
of Dove Bugt ever leave it. The few which reach the coast sea are 
so greatly reduced that they dissolve comparatively quickly. 
The icebergs forming further north have a still more circum- 
scribed existence. However from the southern part of Jokelbugten 
a few, not quite insignificant icebergs may reach the mouth of Or- 
leans Sund, and from there, in particularly slack ice years, may 
continue the journey out into the coast sea; on the other hand, one 
may venture to say that it is only on very rare occasions that an 
iceberg escapes from Independence Fjord or Hagens Fjord into the 
drift ice. On the two occasions when by widely different routes I 
have crossed the mouths of the fjords inside Wandels Hav, I have 
not seen a single iceberg. But HAGEn mentions — presumably as some- 
thing unusual — the existence of an iceberg at the mouth of Hagens 
Fjord. The small icebergs which may come from Hovgaards ©, the 
small glaciers on Holms Land, Ingolfs Fjord and the ice wall between 
Antarctic Bugt and Nordost-Rundingen are so insignificant that they 
cannot have a very long life. 
The icebergs in the coast sea north of the 74th parallel are 
therefore small and rather rare. 
The Coast Land. 
When in 1906 we left home, we expected to find in Northeast 
Greenland a large ice-free coast land. We knew that from Scoresby 
Sound a comparatively broad coast land extended in a northern 
direction as far as the 75th parallel, and probably further; we knew 
that at Navy Cliff PEAry had met with a considerable ice-free stretch 
of land, and we had good reason to believe that Peary Land at least 
did not contain any continuous inland ice, even though there were 
fairly large ice-covered areas. We knew that the snow fall decreased 
towards the north, and in this very circumstance we looked for the 
explanation of the fact that Peary Land was not covered with ice 
to the same extent as the rest of Greenland. 
