56 FRIDTJOF NANSEN. M.-N. KI. 
Amundsen’s salinities lie between those of the North Polar Basin, 
and those at the Russian Station in the Barents Sea to the southeast 
as well as those of Makaroff’s Stations to the east. It seems probable 
that Amundsen has been in Polar water coming from the northeast 
through the strait between the Franz Josef Archipelago and Spitsbergen. 
The salinity of this Polar water is gradually increased on the way 
southwards by intermixture with southern waters of higher salinity. 
