from our anchorage in Liefde Ray. August 8, 1912. 



markcil slure-line (lcscril)C(l above, at al)out 47 metres above the sea. It 

 rises i^ently inland towards the foot of the mountain. 



Hence we may assume that the upp^r level of the platform cut in 

 solid rock lies about 47 metres above the sea in the reijion of Lake \'alley, 

 and is probablv a few metres higher at the foot of the mountain-side 



This is exactly the height of the coast platform, which we found on 

 the west side of this peninsula, on the east coast of Liefde Bay. But 

 it is considerably higher than the observed heights of the strandfiat on 

 Reindeer Land, and on Prince Charles Forelaufl. 



The ([uestion is then whether this coast platform may be considered 

 as actualls' belonging to the strandfiat, or whether it is rather a shore- 

 ledge similar to the raised beaches and shore-lines, formed during some 

 more temporary depression of the land. On the one hanrl it seems to be 

 too high to be a part of the regular strandflat, on the other hand 

 it seems difficult to assume that a platform as broad as this has been 

 formed f luring temporary depressions of tlie lanrl. Lately Hoel [1922] 

 and \\'erenskiold [1920 , however, have found some most remarkable 

 broad ledges or plateaus, cut in solid rock, on the west coast near the 



Fig. 149. East coast of Reindeer Land. August 8, 191 2. [From Nansen, 1920I 



