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also situated. The two northernmost springs, the Jotun Springs, lie due 

 west of Vulkan Harbour, and the volcano is about 2 kilometres south-south- 

 west of them. The other 6 warm springs, the Troll Springs, lie about 

 7 kilometres south-south-east of the volcano, near the south end of Wat- 

 nelie Delta. The upper part of Bock Bay is shallow a long way out. 



The country round Wood Ba}', Bock Bay and the lower part of Liefde 

 Bay, is some of the best reindeer country in Spitsbergen. It is not only 

 that it affords good pasture, but its remoteness and inaccessible character 

 owing to the uncertain ice-conditions on the north coast, allow the ani- 

 mals here to live more undisturbed than on the west coast of Spits- 

 bergen. 



Wood Bay (Norwegian Trœbiigta) is so named on account of the 

 quantity of driftwood found there. Up to the present it has been practi- 

 cally unknown, as hunters seldom make their way thither. If the condition 

 of the ice allows of their entering Wood Bay, they can as a rule get to 

 better hunting-grounds farther east, and then they will not go in here. 



Wood Bay was visited by the Swedish expedition with the Aiit- 

 arctic in 1901, and by the two German officers, Poninski and Von 

 Bock in 1907. The latter made a chart by the stereo-photogrammetric 

 method, of Wood, Liefde and Bock Bays. The last-named has long been 

 known by Norwegian hunters, who called it Vaattebugta (Glove Bay) from 

 its resemblance in shape to a glove, Germania Bay being the thumb. 

 Wood Bay was also visited by Isachsen's division of the Prince of 

 Monaco's expedition in 1907, but under very unfavorable conditions 01 

 weather, at the end of August, During Isachsen's expedition in 1909, the 

 outer part of Wood Bay was visited for a few days at the end of August. 

 In 1910 the same expedition worked for the greater part of August in this 

 group of Qords. 



During Isachsen's expedition in 1906, under the auspices of H. S. H. 

 the Prince of Monaco, the innermost part of Liefde Bay was mapped from 

 within by the photogrammetric method. During Isachsen's expedition in 

 1 910, the inner part of Liefde Bay was visited by one of the geologists 

 of the expedition in the motor-vessel Laila. The bay, however, has been 

 known to a considerable extent by Norwegian hunters who have now and 

 then put in here to collect eggs and down on the islands. At the same 

 time they have been able to hunt reindeer on Reindeer Land and had 

 the chance of catching seals. The ice in Liefde Bay breaks up later than 

 in Wood Bay, and there are always icebergs of various sizes drifting about. 

 In the two years the expeditio has visited Wood Bay, icebergs haven 



