188 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
Of open water we saw (in June) one large pond off Holm’s Land, 
but it was not particularly broad, probably not more than 2 à 3 miles. 
The general impression of the state of ice from Nordost-Rundingen to 
Bagatellerne was the following, viz. that a landwater, variating in 
breadth from 2 to 7 miles, had extended between these two places with- 
out any interruption some time during the late summer of 1909. 
The sea-ice we met with again and traversed on Sept. 8th, a few 
miles to the north of Hagen Island, but it was so newly frozen that 
it was barely strong enough to carry the weight of a man. From a 
mountain on the NE point of Orleans Island, about 150 metres high, 
no pack-ice nor year-old ice was in sight anywhere, and the open sea 
extended to and probably beyond Ile de France. 
No ice whatsoever, neither new nor old, was found along the coast 
from Orleans Sound to Cape Amélie on Sept. 12th, and not till the 
inner half of Penthievre Fjord did we find unbroken ice. 
The unbroken year-old ice extended across the inner half of Sker- 
fjorden, but there had been a slight motion in it a few days before 
we crossed it. 
There was no pack-ice in sight from the highest parts of the coast 
between Cape Marie Valdemar to Syttenkilometernesset; and there 
were but few grounded pieces of ice along this coast. It was only among 
these that the new ice had formed, and was solid enough for us to 
walk on as late as Sept. 18th—19th. 
Danmark’s Havn was quite open, when we reached it on Sept. 19th, 
and so was all the water visible from Harefjeldene. The new ice was 
not solid enough to travel on till Oct. 11th, and the ice between Kolde- 
wey Island and the mainland must have been broken up again as late 
as the latter days of October, as the snow-covered surface of the ice 
bore plain evidence of having been washed over by saltwater. 
Very heavy pack-ice filled the bay between Haystack and Shan- 
non Island, and there were no indications of its having been broken 
up during the summer of 1910. 
Notes on the state of the coast-ice during the journey in 1909 
from Shannon Island to Lambert’s Land and in 1911 from Shannon 
Island to Skærijorden. 
The new ice under land and between the floes of the pack-ice was 
not considered solid enough to travel on till Sept. 25th, 1909. On the 
journey from Shannon Island to Danmark’s Havn old floes with new 
ice in between were passed until 20 miles north of Shannon Island, 
when we came to large areas, where there had been perfectly open 
water during the summer of 1909, and from the south point of Kolde- 
wey Island to Danmark’s Havn we only passed very few old floes, so. 
