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to the coal formation. A great part of the wide plain immediately within 

 the actual coast-line, is composed of tertiär}- sandstones with considerable 

 coal-strata, which were claimed in 1909 by Chr. Anker of Fredrikshald. 

 In the mountains within, in the south-west, there are partly mountain 

 limestones (farthest north), partly mica-schists and quartzites (farthest 

 south) without fossils. The coast almost throughout consists of cliffs, 

 and a sandy beach is found onl}' at Ouade Hoek, Coal Haven, and at 

 the head of the fjord, near the glacier. Near Zeppelin Harbour, west of 

 Gluud Point, stands a Norwegian house. 



Mt. Ossian Sars, the mountain between the two branches of the huge 

 Kings Glacier, as also all land north-west of the glacier, consists of cla\'-slates, 

 mica-schists, quartzites. and further cr\-stalline limestones in great abun- 

 dance. Crystalline limestone thus .^orms the rocky substratum of Blom- 

 strand Peninsula. The peninsula was annexed in 191 1 by an English com- 

 pany, the Northern Exploration Co. which has erected 2 houses on a 

 small, but good harbour on the south side of the peninsula. On the north- 

 east side of Kings Bay, a sandy shore is found only on the north side 

 of Blomstrand Harbour. 



Cross Bay. Starting from Cape Guissez, Cross Bay first runs in a 

 north-north-easterly direction, but turns more and more westwards, and 

 ends (in Lilliehöök Bay) by running towards the north- north-west. At the 

 head it divides into two branches, Lilliehöök Bay to the west and to the 

 east Möller Bay with its continuation, Koller Bay. The two branches 

 are separated by the high mountain-ridge. King Haakon Peninsula. The 

 length of the Ijord, from Cape Guissez to the head of Lilliehöök Ba}-, is 

 27 ^ 2 kilometres. Its greatest width is at the mouth, where it is 7 kilo- 

 metres across. It then contracts, and between Redinger Point and Bourée 

 Point is 4 kilometres. Farther in it is somewhat broader. Lilliehöök 

 Bay is 10^ o kilometres long, with a uniform width of from 2^ 5 to 3 kilo- 

 metres. Möller Bay is 8 kilometres in length, reckoned from Thoulet Point 

 to the innermost creek on the west. Its breadth is smallest at the mouth, 

 where it is 2^ 5 kilometres. Farther in it expands, and north of Louis 

 Mayer Glacier is 4- 5 kilometres in width. Cross Bay has 4 small off- 

 shoots, Ebeltoft Harbour and Port Signe on the west side, and 14th July 

 Bay and Louis Tina3Te Bay on the east side. 



The Qord was carefully sounded out by the Prince of Monaco in 

 1906 and 1907. The soundings show that there is a basin between Bourée 

 Point, Redinger Point and Cadio Point, with depths of up to 378 metres. 

 South of this it becomes on the whole shallower, but here too a few 

 soundings show more than 300 metres. 



