Notes on the state of the coast-ice from Erik S. Henius’ Land 
to Shannon Island in 1910. 
Tue following notes, compiled on the return-voyage from Danmark’s 
Fjord during the months of May, June, July, August, September 1910, 
are rather fragmentary, as my journal, in which a strict account of this 
matter was kept, became lost while lymg in a depot in Skeerfjorden. 
IVERSEN, however, kept a journal, from which most of the notes are 
taken, and something has been added from memory. 
The ice along the coast of Erik S. Henius’ Land was presumably 
several years old, and had not moved much within the last year. A 
very narrow band of year-old ice! 8—25 metres broad followed the 
face of the glacier, and a comparatively large tract of year-old ice was 
noticed off Nakkehoved, where there must have been open water 
during the preceding summer. 
A rather broad stretch of year-old ice was found along the SE coast 
of Kronprins Christian’s Land from Nordost-Rundingen and southward 
to Eskimonesset, where we encountered some rather high pressure-ridges 
close on land, in places even piled up on the coast itself, and it was 
evident .that the ice had been subject to a very severe strain down to 
the end of Feldestrand, from where the edge of the pack-ice trended 
away from the coast to the SE*, leaving a space, several miles broad 
between it and the coast, covered with year-old ice. 
The mouth of Dijmphna Sound was entirely filled with large 
pieces of ice, bound together by year-old ice, but it was not pressed up 
in ridges and had not been exposed to any strain whatsoever, as it was 
composed of ice, stranded in the shallow water of Dijmphna Sound. 
We met the edge of the pack-ice and heavy pressure-ridges about 
5—7 miles off Hovgaard Island, and the ice between it and the coast 
was all year-old ice, quite smooth and with only a few small pressure- 
ridges. Only very few old floes were frozen into this ice. The same 
kind of ice extended down to and encircled Bagatellerne, but from 
there and just north of Hagen Island we passed no sea-ice whatsoever. 
lie. ice frozen during the preceding autumn and winter. 
2 all directions are true. 
