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in the first lo kilometres to lo kilometres, and continues to decrease. 

 Thus between Cape Roos and Cape Auguste Viktoria the width is 8 kilo- 

 metres, and at Eholmen, about 5 kilometres from the head of the fjord, it 

 is onl}' 4. From the northern half of Wood Bay, two bays, Jakobsen Bay 

 and Svendsen Ba}', i — 4 kilometres in length and a couple of kilometres 

 wide, branch ofi" towards the east. On the southern half of the east side, 

 the coast-line is on the whole fairly regular. 



The west side of the northern part of the fjord is formed by Rein- 

 deer Land with its numerous shallow indentations. The west side of 

 the southern half, south of Cape Kjeldsen, like the corresponding east 

 side, is comparatively even. 



The upper part of the fjord, especially south of Eholmen, is filled 

 with mud from the glaciers, this being also the case with the bays 

 outside the large rivers, especially on the east side. At low water the 

 upper part of the fjord, from a little above Eholmen, Poninski Delta, is 

 dry for a distance of about 10 kilometres. 



Liefde Bay, which at its mouth is about 14 kilometres broad, first runs 

 nearly 10 kilometres in a westerly direction, and then, for about 20 kilo- 

 metres, south-west. It is of an even breadth in the part going west, but 

 contracts rapidly to about 9 kilometres, and then evenly to 3V o kilometres 

 off Lerner Islands, after which it widens in the innermost part to 6V'2 

 kilometres. 



Bock Bay first runs up 5 kilometres towards the south-west, with a 

 uniform width of rather more than 5 kilometres, and then turns south for 

 nearly 10 kilometres, contracting in width to about 2 kilometres at 

 the head. 



While Liefde Bay terminates in the south-west in the nearly 5-kilo- 

 metre broad Monaco Glacier and the Ida Glacier (2 kilometres wide) coming 

 from the north-west, Bock Ba}- terminates in Watnelie Delta, the greater 

 part of which is dr}- even at high water. The coast-line on the east side 

 of Bock Ba}' is fairly even, curving slightly eastwards; but on the west 

 side there are two bays, Friedrich Bay farthest south, and Germania Bay 

 at the mouth. 



While in Bock Bay there are no islands, and in Wood Bay only i, 

 the litde Eholmen at the head of the fjord, Liefde Bay has 4 groups of 

 islands — farthest in. Lerner Øyan, and in the lower, broad part of the 

 bay, Ande Øyan, Maake Øyan and Stations Øyan. 



While Liefde Bay is certainl}' very foul, Wood Bay and Bock Bay 

 have even depths. The greatest depth in the inner part of Wood Bay, 

 75 metres, is found ofi:' the southernmost of the great valleys on the east 



