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Fig. 143. Cross Bay and the Cape Mitre Peninsula, based on the maps by Gunnar Isachsen. 



The horizontal liatcliiiig indicates the strandflat. Isobaths are drawn for 50, 100, 200, and 



300 metres of depth. The contours on land for every 50 metres. [From Nansen 1920]. 



and Cross Bay ("Kross Fjorfl") have been much deepened and excavated 

 bv glacial erosion, which has cut away the strandflat and steepened the 

 mountain sides. It is. however, noteworthy tliat here too there may b» 

 observed a certain tendency towards formation of cir(|uc glaciers on the 

 eastern side of the mountain ridges which is especially conspicuous on 

 King Håkon Peninsula ("Kong Håkon's Haho". !-~ig. 143). 



The strandflat of the Cape IMitre Peninsula is cut in schists of the 

 Hecla Hook system, which are fairlv easily rlisintegrated by frost. But to 

 the north of this peninsula the coast is l)uilt up of very resistant granites 



