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84 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
There was a surprising difference in the appearance of the country 
near the Inlandice and here. There it was almost bare of snow, and a 
large amount of vegetation and very many traces of animals were seen 
wherever we touched land; the country bordering Danmark’s Fjord 
however, was much more snow-covered, the more so the further we 
advanced toward the mouth of the fjord. The coastline, which we 
passed to-day, just south of Gundersteddal, and which only had a 
height of about 70 metres, was so covered with snow as to give the im- 
pression of being a small local glacier. The vegetation was very scanty, 
save in some very few places, and the only animals of which we found 
any trace, were foxes. 
Gundersteddal was passed at midnight May 23rd, but we could 
not see the land behind it owing to fog. Seen as we saw it, there seemed 
to be no valley, save the one cut out in the hills by a fairly large river, 
apparently coming from far inland and draining off much water, as 
the banks were very steep. 
To the north of that — about Cape Kronborg — the coast once 
more became steep, almost vertical, but it did not rise to any great 
height, probably not above 200 metres (Fig. 49). During the night’s 
sledging we passed only four places, which could afford even a poor site 
for a depot, and all four places were carefully searched without any 
traces whatever being found. It was impossible to say for certain which 
of the three vertical cliffs passed during the night should be Cape Kron- 
borg, as the coastline was very straight, and it was so foggy, that we 
could not get a view of the opposite shore and thus find our position 
by bearings; this was, however, of no great importance, as there could 
be no depots on the stretch we had passed. 
We were surprised to find very high pressure-ridges on all projec- 
ting points from a little north of Gundersteddal. The ridges had a 
height of about 10—15 metres and were formed of very heavy ice, which 
had even been forced up on the low shore in large flakes, showing that 
the pressure must have been extreme. These ridges did not date from the 
previous summer, as the edges were melted off, but they had not been 
exposed to open water, as the waves in that case would have reduced 
the ridges to a greater extent than was the case (Fig. 50). There had 
most likely been open water since the autumn 1907, as the ridges could 
not be so old, so it will be seen that it was not an unusual state of affairs, 
which broke up the ice in 1907, but a thing of more or less frequent 
occurrence. 
The coast to the north of the cliffs, which form Cape Kronborg, 
was rather low, and it being foggy we decided to remain in camp to 
give the dogs a rest, while we could get a good chance of carefully in- 
vestigating the land, as this would most likely be the place where the 
depot at Cape Kronborg mentioned by Ввомгомр had been left. We 
walked along on the land itself, but found no traces at all, either this 
