GUNNAR ISACHSEN. M.-N. Kl. 



Kings Bay was sounded out by the Farm on July 22 — 28, 1909. 

 Inside the Loven Islands and in Deer Creek, soundings could not be taken 

 in 1909, as the water there was full of fragments of ice fallen from the 

 glaciers. A reef seems to run from the Loven Islands to the south end 

 of Blomstrand Peninsula, as a number of small icebergs had grounded 

 there. Between this supposed reef and a line from Blomstrand Peninsula 

 to Cape Coal on the south side of Kings Bay is a bar with only 60 metres 

 of water over it, while in the basin to the east of the bar there are 

 depths of up to 267 metres. Immediately west of this bar, the bottom 

 sinks abruptly to a depth of 352 metres, and then rises still farther west 

 to about 200 metres south of Cape Guissez. The greatest depths, up to 

 354 metres, are found where the middle lines of Cross Bay and Kings 

 Bay meet, though nearer Ouade Hoek than the Mitra Peninsula. The 

 bottom again rises a little to a low, somewhat crooked threshold, common 

 to both bays, between Ouade Hoek and Cape Mitra. This threshold lies 

 deeper at its south end, towards Ouade Hoek. 



A vessel coming from the sea into Cross Bay and Kings Bay must 

 beware of the shallows oflf Cape Mitra on the north side of the fairway, 

 and on the south side, of the shallows off Ouade Hoek. The clearing mark 

 past the shallows oft" Cape Mitra is Blomstrandsalen under the southern- 

 most of the Three Crowns (see sketch C on the chart). A vessel will 

 pass clear of the shallows off" Quade Hoek, when the northernmost of 

 the Three Crowns stands above Mt. Ossian Sars. The Three Crowns (see 

 the chart) have pyramidal-shaped summits, and are about 1200 metres in 

 height, namely, 1230. 1225, and 1172 metres respectively, beginning with 

 the most northerly. 



Within Quade Hoek, Kings Bay is clean right in to the Loven 

 Islands. Within the latter the bay is often filled with pieces of glacier 

 ice. There is good anchorage east of Storholmen, but as the bottom is 

 uneven the anchor must be dropped in deep water. In south and west 

 winds, quite a good anchorage is to be found in Coal Haven; but vessels 

 should not go farther into the harbour than where there is 14 metres' 

 depth, as within that it grows rapidly shallower. Good holding ground. 

 In northerly and westerly winds it is not advisable to lie in Coal Haven, 

 as the broken ice is driven in. At such times Blomstrand Harbour affords 

 a capital anchorage. In fine weather there are many other places in Kings 

 Bay where, with caution, a vessel may go right in to land and anchor, 

 as the fjord is clean up to the shore almost everywhere. 



The species of rock occurring on the coast on the south-west side of 

 Kings Bay are limestones and silicious rocks, often fossiliferous, belonging 



