I9I2. No. 14. THE HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATION'S. I3 



wegian arctic traders assert that along the west coast of Prince Charles 

 Foreland there are shallows only up to a couple of miles out from the 

 shore. As ver\' little, however, is known of the waters here, great caution 

 must be employed in navigating them. 



There is a great quantity of driftwood on the west coast of Prince 

 Charles Foreland. The coast-line in the chart, between Cape Cold and 

 Cape Sitoe, is principally taken from Brl'ce. 



1. Foreland Sound — Kings Bay — Cross Bay. 



Foreland Sound south of the Reef. Soundings were taken betwen the 

 Reef and a line from Saddle Mt. to Daumann Öyra (Deadman Spit) by the 

 Farm on June 30, July 6 — 9 and 15 and 16, 1910. 



This part of Foreland Sound is about 60 kilometres in length, and 

 its direction is SSE— NNW. Its breadth varies from 20 kilometres be- 

 tween Peter Winter Bay and St. Johns Ba}-, and 5 kilometres over the 

 Reef. At the southern opening, between Saddle Mountain and Deadman 

 Spit, the width is 19 kilometres, between Poole Point and Cape Müller 

 12 kilometres. To the north the sound widens, until it once more narrows 

 to 15 km. at Ferrier Haven, and thence maintains an even width north- 

 w^ards to the Reef. 



On the west side of the sound, between Saddle Point, the southern 

 extremit}' of the Foreland, and Poole Point, the coast is on the whole 

 fairly regular. It has one inward bend, Sandbugta, near the southern 

 extremity, and a couple more immediateh' south of Poole Point. During 

 the difficult ice-conditions in the summer of 1907, Sandbugta was used b}^ 

 Norwegian whalers as a station for a floating whale-oil factory. On the 

 corresponding east side of Foreland Sound, between Deadman Spit and 

 Cape Müller, lies Tordenskjoldbugta (Tordenskjold Bay), and north of this 

 again, Farm Harbour. South of the lo-kilometre long and equall}' broad 

 Deadman Spit, which rises only a few metres above the surface of the 

 sea. Ice Fjord runs up eastwards into the land. 



Between Poole Point and Ferrier Haven the coast-line is evenly 

 undulating. At Poole Point it runs out eastwards in a sandy spit about 

 4 kilometres in length. Upon the corresponding piece of coast on the east 

 side of the sound, the coast-line is more irregular. North of Cape Müller, 

 between that cape and- Cape Anker, St. Johns Bay runs up in an easterly 

 direction, with a length of about 20 kilometres. For the last 6 kilometres 

 of its length it turns in an east-north-easterly direction, and terminates in 

 the perpendicular face of the great Osborne Glacier. Soundings were 



