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6. Green Harbour 



runs up into the land in a south-south-easterly direction on the south side 

 of Ice Fjord, about lo kilometres from the mouth of the fjord. It is 17 

 kilometres in length, 5 kilometres broad at the mouth, and 2 at the head. 

 The fjord is of an even shape, contracting evenly towards the head, except 

 for the indentation Larvika in the middle of the east side, 3^/0 kilometres 

 wide and about i kilometre deep, and a couple of smaller bays on the 

 same side nearer the head of the harbour. There is one slight concavity 

 on the west side, Hecla Harbour, and a couple of bays farther in, south 

 of Sandefjord Point. 



Green Harbour was sounded out by the Farm on September 3, 1910. 



The middle of the fjord goes down to a depth of 78 metres, with a 

 low threshold at a depth of 60 metres, between Larvik Point and Alde- 

 gonde Glacier. North of this, and nearly up to the mouth of the harbour, 

 is its deepest part, 141 metres along the middle, terminating in a low 

 threshold at a depth of 127 metres. From this point the bottom drops 

 evenly outwards to 165 metres in the middle of the harbour mouth, and 

 continues to sink out to the deep water of Ice Fjord. Apart from the deep 

 channel in the middle of the tjord, the greatest depths lie south of and 

 within the above-mentioned threshold along the west shore, while north 

 of it they are found nearest the eastern shore. The fairway outside Fæst- 

 ningodden, east of the little island Fæstninga, is foul, so that vessels should 

 be in mid-channel before turning, and at any rate not go nearer Fæstninga 

 than I kilometre. The fairway outside Harbour Elva (Harbour River) and 

 at the head of the tjord is very full of mud. 



7. Hecla Harbour & Finnes Harbour. 



Hydrographie observations were made in these harbours by Petersen- 

 Hansen between July 29, and August 2, 1910. 



Hecla Harbour lies on the west side of the Green Harbour fjord, 

 7 kilometres from its mouth. The anchor may be dropped off the hut 

 which is easy to distinguish as one approaches the anchorage. Good hold- 

 ing ground, clay. Vessels can also anchor on the north side of the 

 point, off which, here as well as at Finnes on the east side, there are 

 considerably greater depths than on both sides of the point. Water can 

 be taken from the river on the point. Hecla Harbour is the station of 

 the Norwegian whaling company, Alfa & Beta, of Sandefjord. 



Finnes Harbour lies on the east side of the fjord, 8 kilometres from 

 the mouth. There is anchorage both north and south of the point, Finneset. 



