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1907 at Danmarksfjord, has in his map plotted a couple of fairly 
large lakes and a great number of water courses of which at any 
rate one — in the interior of the Danmarksfjord — judging by the 
map must be supposed to carry a considerable quantity of water. 
Knup RASMUSSEN and PETER FREUCHEN, who in the early part of the 
summer of 1912 from the inland ice descended into Danmarksfjord, 
in Zig-Zag-Dalen (the zig-zag valley, discovered by Кмор RASMUSSEN 
and so not included in the map of the Danmark-Ekspedition) came 
across a whole series of small lakes. 
The lakes and water courses, which Knup RASMUSSEN and PETER 
FREUCHEN discovered west of Independence Fjord, and among which 
in particular Nyeboes Randsø (N.’s marginal lake) is of no small 
interest, lie outside the stretches covered by the Danmark-Ekspedition, 
and thus will not be mentioned in this place. 
The Climate. 
The meteorological observations are exhaustively treated in Medd. 
om Grønl. XLII, by WEGENER in “Meteorologische Terminbeobachtungen 
am Danmarks Havn” and “Drachen- und Fesselballonaufstiege”, by 
BRAND and WEGENER in “Meteorologische Beobachtungen der Station 
Pustervig” and by BRAND in “Die Temperatur in der Ausguckstonne”. 
From the discussion of the meteorological phenomena further appear . 
the single features of the climate of the country, but as a matter of 
fact scattered and disconnected. I have, therefore, thought it best 
in this place to give a concise description of the climate, founded on 
WEGENER’s and Branp’s treatment of the meteorological material of 
the Danmark-Ekspedition, augmented by a few observations made 
on later occasions. 
The climate is, even at the outer coast, a continental one. This 
appears from all the climatological factors, but most distinctly per- 
haps from the temperature, in that the yearly amplitude — computed 
from the mean temperature of the months — is about 32°. The 
cause of this state of affairs is to be looked for in the East Green- 
land current, which is practically covered with ice during the greater 
part of the year and so, climatologically speaking, must be regarded 
as forming part of the land. The ice conditions of the sea, varying 
from one year to another, quite naturally entail corresponding changes 
in the climate. It then follows, as a matter of course, that a re- 
presentation of the climate which, like the one we are dealing with, 
is mainly based upon meteorological observations undertaken during 
a period of only two years, must be put forward with a certain 
reservation. 
