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4. Farm Harbour 



is situated in the south part of the east side of Foreland Sound. Hy- 

 drographie observations were made in the harbour by Hermansen, from 

 July 16 to 19, 1909. 



The east side of the harbour is formed by the land south of Eidem 

 Glacier, and its south side by the peninsula Möringen and a great number 

 of little islands and rocks with sometimes no more than 4 metres of water 

 between them. The harbour, which is open to the north and west, is 

 about I kilometre deep, but twice as broad at its entrance. 



Farm Harbour is part of Eidem Bay, which has depths of up to 80 

 metres, somewhat shallower at the mouth of the bay between Langgrund 

 and Marineholman, 75 metres. Outside the bottom drops quickly to the 

 greatest depths of the sound. 



The harbour affords little protection against west and north winds, 

 but it is a good anchorage in all easterly and some southerly winds. Sandy 

 bottom, in places rocky. Vessels must not go farther in than that the 

 northernmost of Marineholman is clear of Saddle Point. Water can be 

 taken from a river directly south of the glacier. 



Farm Harbour was used by the Farm for the first time in }w\y, 1909, 

 and afterwards several times in storms from the south-east. 



Wood Bay — Liefde Bay — Bock Bay. 



In order to obtain some idea of the entirely unknown bottom-condi- 

 tions in Wood Bay and Bock Bay, a series of soundings were taken by 

 the Farm, in Bock Bay on August 8, and in Wood Bay on August 10, 

 12 and 13, 1910. 



Wood Bay is the 70-kilometre long fjord running southwards, east of 

 Reindeer Land (Rensdyr Landet) on the north side of Spitsbergen. About 

 20 kilometres from its mouth, on the west side, a fjord about 30 kilometres 

 long branches out westwards, Liefde Bay, and about 35 kilometres from 

 the mouth, also on the west side, another fjord. Bock Bay, in a southerly 

 direction for a length of about 15 kilometres. 



Wood Bay runs first for about 35 kilometres in a south-south-west 

 direction until between Cape Roos and Cape Auguste Viktoria, and then 

 turns towards the south-south-east, continuing in that direction for about 

 35 kilometres, to the head of the fjord. In its innermost part the bay 

 takes a southerly direction. The width of the fjord, which, at its mouth 

 between Welcome Point and Grey Hoek, is about 20 kilometres, decreases 



