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lakes are far greater than the pools and ponds, which are met with 
in hundreds in other parts of the moutonnéed landform. The 
moutonnéed rock only appears in the light of day as detached, more 
or less projecting rocky islands. 
In the immediate neighbourhood of the coast the moutonnéed 
landform may assume a materially different aspect. The belt of rocks 
and islands girding the coast east of Danmarks Havn is a case in 
point (see Pl. I, Danmarks Havn and Environs). In this place we 
do not meet with continuous ranges of hills, but with great quantities 
of detached, low, rounded hills with small irregular depressions in 
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Fig. 115. Frost-cleft stone (gneiss). Effect of the gliding slush in connection 
with thawing and refreezing of the ground. 
between. Here there is not sufficient material available for the 
levelling of the depressions; instead of that they are partly filled up 
with a large quantity of quite small lakes and ponds, the surfaces 
of which are often only a few metres above the level of the sea. 
The above description of the moutonnéed landform refers to 
Germania Land and the belt of rocks and islands in Dove Bugt. 
The greatest altitudes in the moutonnéed landform here, only in ex- 
ceptional cases exceed 600 m, whereas on Dronning Louises Land 
one may in this landform meet with altitudes of 1000 to 1200 m, 
though it must not be inferred from this statement, that moutonnéed 
landforms cannot be met with at greater altitudes. There are, as 
mentioned above, quite gradual transitions to the plateau landform, 
the altitudes of which reach 2000 m, and even in these altitudes the 
