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1908. The old whalers had stations here, and in Ebeltoft Harbour the 

 ruins of Norwegian hunters' houses are still to be found. 



The eider-duck breeds on Kohn Island, and in thousands on the islands 

 in Kings Ba3\ Among their breeding-places on the mainland may be 

 mentioned the southern extremity of King Haakon Peninsula, and Mt. Nils 

 in Port Signe, and in Kings Bay the 200-metre high cliffs of the plain 

 lying between Coal Haven and Ouade Hoek. Foxes are often seen, 

 especially in the neighbourhood of the nesting-places. Seals are almost 

 always to be found among the broken ice at the foot of the glaciers, 

 unless there is much ice outside the fjords, when the seal prefers to be 

 there. 



The whole of Cross Bay lies within the domain of the Hecla Hoek 

 formation. Its surroundings consist of brown mica-schists, quartzites and 

 crystalline limestones and dolomites. The strike is NWV — SSE. On 

 the west side of the fjord the dip is towards the west, and in King 

 Haakon Peninsula and the mountains on the east side, towards the 

 east. No faults have been observed round the fjord. The yellow 

 dolomites occur in great abundance on the west side of the Ijord, 

 and can be recognised from a great distance by their light colour. On 

 the east side of the Qord there is an exceedingly thick stratum of crystal- 

 line blue-grey or reddish limestone, extending from Blomstrand Peninsula 

 to the north side of Louis Tinayre Bay, decreasing in thickness north- 

 wards. A broad lowland is found nearest the sea at the mouth of the 

 Qord. It is broadest at Cape Guissez and Cape Mitra, and decreases in 

 width up the fjord, ceasing about at a line from the 14th July Glacier 

 to Ebeltoft Harbour, On both sides of the fjord there are gravel ter- 

 races and beach-lines in the solid rock, going up to a height of about 

 105 metres above the sea. The coast is for the most part composed of 

 cliffs, of heights up to 20 metres. Round Port Ebeltoft the shore is flat. 

 In Lilliehöök Bay, the mountains slope steeph' but evenly down to the 

 sea, an exception to this being the low coast north of Port Signe. 



3. Ferner Haven, 



in Foreland Sound, in the middle of the east side of the Foreland, runs 

 in for a distance of about 3 kilometres in a south-westerly direction. The 

 continuation of the haven is a low valley that runs across in a southerly 

 direction to Nathorst Bay on the west coast of the Foreland. While the 

 north shore of Ferrier Haven from Reinhard Point measures onlv about 



