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Water courses do not occur up on the plateaus; on the other 
hand one may here and there come across a small lake. 
The plateaus of Germania Land are intersected by three deep 
clefts, very similar to crevasses, with steep, rocky walls; two of these 
clefts lodge Annekssøen and Sælsøen, the third is partly filled up by 
Mørkefjorden. The considerable glacial activity, wkich has taken 
place through these depressions, appears partly from the worn and 
rounded walls of rocks, of which in particular the north side of the 
Danmarks Monument is a splendid example, partly also from the 
frequently occurring moraines. Considerable lateral moraines are 
thus to be found near the Danmarks Monument, west and south of 
Rypefjeldet, at the east point of Væderen (the Ram) and along either 
side of Sælsgen. Terminal moraines occur at the western end of 
Selsoen, and in the eastern part of Annekssoen; in both of these 
places the moraines stretch like an arc across the lakes and reach 
5 to 10m above the surfaces of the lakes. Also at the mouth of 
Morkefjord, at the eastern point of the Danmark Monument, there is 
a terminal moraine, which like two broad parallel bars stretches 
across the mouth of the fjord, with a depth of water of 1 to 2 m. 
With the plateau landforms must further be grouped the just 
now described area between Annekssgen and Hellefjord, Store Kolde- 
wey south of Bergs Fjord, large stretches of Dronning Louises Land, 
a large part of Hertugen af Orleans Land, the greater western part 
of Lamberts Land, as well as certain stretches of Holms Land (Malle- 
mukfjeldet) and of Amdrups Land. In the two latter localities the 
plateaus consist of sand stone. 
Transition forms. 
As mentioned above the typical plateau landforms occur in 
localities where the ice has upon the whole been comparatively 
quiescent, whereas the typical moutonnéed landforms indicate a 
strong glacial action. It then follows, as a matter of course, that all 
sorts of transitions are to be found between these two extremities. 
These forms of transition, to which belongs the country between 
Skærfjorden and Jokelbugten, as well as the eastern tracts of Ger- 
mania Land, consist of undulating mountain areas of 300 to 600m 
altitude. They are grey and bleak stone deserts, the surface of which 
consists of loose stones and gravel, through which the worn and 
rounded rock projects here and there. Now and then one may come 
across a small lake or a narrow water course, buf apart from that 
the only enlivening factor are the perennial snow drifts, which like 
white splashes are strewn all over the grey land. 
With the transition forms between plateau and moutonnéed land- 
