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stronger. Moreover, as the water has to force its way through the 
comparatively narrow sound between Shannon Island and the main- 
land, there must be a stronger current. 
The objection may be raised that it is curious to find such smooth 
ice at this place, but this, I think, has its origin in the small tidal dif- 
ference. The current flowing southwards will thus be the dominating 
one, whilst that going north will be but a slight current or may be 
none at all, it being ultimately absorbed by the constant arctic current 
flowing south, and by reason of these conditions I am of opinion that 
the ice-pressure disappears or is, at any rate, but slight. 
I cannot speak definitely as to how the soundings are here, but 
everything would seem to indicate a comparatively great depth, as there 
were no stranded icebergs in the waters between Shannon Island and the 
mainland, nor in the bay between Shannon and Sabine Islands and 
Bass Rock. 
The fact that icebergs are not to be met with at the first place 
may perhaps be accounted for by the extension of a submerged ridge 
from Haystack to Shannon Island, as several stranded icebergs were 
to be found to the east of this line, and none or only some small 
ones west of this line. 
In the bay SW of Shannon Island one might reasonably expect to 
find icebergs of a slight depth, as the Ardencaple Inlet debouches here, 
which I presume ends in a glacier from which icebergs are formed and 
not simply in an inactive glacier. 
The sledge journey to the west of Dronning 
Louise’s Land. 
April 10th—May 23rd 1910. 
The plan and outfitting. 
Before the departure from the winter quarters on the 3rd of March 
for the sledge journey to the bottom of Danmark’s Fjord, which was to 
be undertaken by Capt. MIKKELSEN and IVERSEN, it had been arranged 
that the mates OLSEN and POULSEN together with myself should ac- 
company them as an auxiliary party, chiefly to assist the main party 
in ascending the Inlandice and on the first advance on it, according 
to the plan as far as about 78° №. Lat. At about 77° №. Lat. a depot 
was to be laid down on the Inlandice for the auxiliary party, so that 
we, after having separated from the main body, were to return to 
the depot and thence go west on the Inlandice and west and south 
of Dronning Louise’s Land descending from the Inlandice at the 
bottom of the Ardencaple Inlet, and from there to the winter quarters 
on Shannon Island. 
For the execution of this plan the party had at its disposal pro- 
