442 1. P. Kocn. 
The altitude of the plain above the level of the sea near Tre- 
kroner is 40 to 45m; from here it slopes quite evenly down towards 
Dove Bugt. The surface consists of stone and gravel, intersected by 
rivers, which have excavated deep, sharply defined riverbeds. 
The name of this plain owes its origin to a stranded whale 
(probably a Greenland whale) the skeleton of which was found a 
few kilometres from the shore. 
Fig. 136. Ice bridge. Germania Land. July. 
Lakes and water courses. 
Smalllakes, ponds and rivulets occur in very great numbers 
in the moutonnéed rocks along the coast. In the terrain measured 
by LiNDHARD and myself from June 28th to July 4th 1908, west of 
Stormelven'), it will be possible, in an area of about 16 square kilo- 
metres, to count about thirty little lakes and water holes and a very 
great number of rivulets. The result of the high arctic climatic 
conditions is, however, that the small lakes and rivulets so to speak 
only exist for a short period of the year, but during this short 
period they play an extremely great part, in that an essential portion 
of the fauna and vegetation of Northeast Greenland is bound up 
with them. 
1) Medd. om Gronl. XLV, No. 1, PI. УП. 
