I^ GUNNAR ISACHSEN. M.-N. Kl. 



taken in St. Johns Bay by the Farm on the 2nd September, 1910. The 

 innermost part of the bay was then full of broken pieces of ice from the 

 glaciers. A bar seems to run across the mouth of the bay immediately 

 east of a line from Cape Müller to Farmgr (Farm Shoal), with a basin 

 within it. There is probably also a bar south of Mt. Lowzow at a depth 

 of 80 metres. From the northern entrance to St. Johns Bay at Cape 

 Anker, the coast-line runs northwards until north of Dahl Glacier it makes 

 a sharp turn out towards the west. 



On the 20-kilometre stretch of coast from Ferrier Haven to the Reef, 

 there are only two large indentations, one on each side of Andenæs Point. 

 As the Reef is approached in the south, the 14-kilometre wide fairway 

 contracts rather suddenly, the coast-line thus forming on the west side 

 Murray Bay, and on the corresponding east side Michael Sars Bay. With 

 the exception of the latter, the face of Aavatsmark Glacier forms the only 

 inward curve on that stretch of the east coast-line. 



On the west side of Foreland Sound there are few islands, only some 

 small islets in Sandbugta and some farther south, all close to the shore, 

 and the little Malme Island oft" the middle of Foreland Plain. On the east 

 side of the sound, outside Farm Harbour, lie a number of islands and 

 rocks; and on the north side of Eidem Bay lie Langgrund (Long Shallow) 

 and Smaaskjæran (Little Rocks), the latter a chain of rocks and islets 

 extending to a distance of 2 kilometres from land. Off Cape Müller lies 

 Nærgrunden (Near Shallow), only about 300 metres from land; and at the 

 mouth of St. Johns Bay, nearest its north side, is Farmgrunden, covered 

 only by from ^U to i metre of water. West of the latter, and separated 

 from the shore by the 3-kilometre broad Farm Sound, lies Hermansen 

 Island, the largest island in Foreland Sound, measuring 3V2 kilometres in 

 length and i kilometre in breadth. 



The eider-duck breeds on most of the islands in Foreland Sound, especi- 

 ally on Hermansen Island and Marineholman outside Farm Harbour. 



The greatest depth north of the line from Saddle Point to Deadman 

 Spit is 263 metres, and is found nearest the former point. The greatest 

 depth north of a line from Poole Point to Cape Müller is 238 metres, and 

 is very near the first of these places. The greatest depth north of a line 

 from Ferrier Haven to Kaff'e Öyra (Coff'ee Spit) is 137 metres, and was found 

 about midway between these places. The greatest depths south of the Reef 

 are found nearer the western than the eastern side of the sound. Immedi- 

 ately south of the Reef, on the west side of the sound, there are depths 

 of up to 65 metres, while over Revflakket on the east side, to the north 

 of Aavatsmark Glacier, there is only up to 8 metres of water. 



