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Fig. 146. The east side of Amsterdam Island, with the low Holiaender Ness. 

 August I, 1912. [From Nansen 1920]. 



to have a width of 9 kilometres. On the whole the sea-bottom seems 

 to he uneven in this region, as we have generally found it in regions of 

 irranitc and resistant igneous rocks. 



Reindeer Land. 



Almost the wdiole of Reindeer Land forms a very level strandfiat 

 which is about 18 kilometres across (Fig. 148). I have only been ashore 

 on its east coast 5 or 6 kilometres north of its south-eastern corner. 

 There were in some places low vertical shore cliffs, with a flat beach in 

 front, while in other places the rocks sloped more gently down to the shore 

 (see Fig. 149). 



The general level of the flat gently undulating surface of the land 

 (Figs. 150 and 151 ) is between 15 and 20 metres above the sea. Low 

 lidges rise above this level to about 26 metres. The highest ridge inside 

 our anchorage on the east coast, was 27.5 metres above sea-level. 

 Most ridges seen inland had aliout the same height, but some ridges 

 further in to the north of us, were higher, and may have attained altitudes 

 of about 50 metres. Bare rock was seen in the surface in many places 

 especially on the ridges. 



Near the northern point of the peninsula, near Welcome Point, there 

 is a solitary hill rising to 98 metres above the sea, as determined by the 

 Isachsen Expedition 1909 — 1910. 



The whole peninsula is built up of Devonian schists. \\\ its south- 

 western part there are higher mountains consisting of the same kind of 

 rocks. According to what I was told by Hoel, the plain extends almost 

 horizontally to the foot of these mountains, which rise abruptly, with a 

 sharply defined line of demarkation between the plain and the mountain 

 sides. 



