198 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
in which state it remained, until we left the coast on July 21th. The 
landwater off Gael Hamkes Bay was quite open and free of ice, and 
anything aproaching the appearance of pack-ice was not met before 
about 30 miles off land. 
The coastwater along the north-east coast of Greenland. 
By the term of coastwater is implied the body of water, which 
is usually found between the floating pack-ice and the solid land-ice. 
A rather broad coastwater seems in the habit of forming every year, 
and it extends at least from Ile de France and southward along the 
east coast of Greenland. 
That this is so from Shannon Island and southward along the coast, 
probably all the way to Cape Farvel, is a well-known fact, but it is 
only during later years that sufficient material has been collected to 
make a sort of basis for our knowledge of the existence of this coast- 
water, from Shannon Island and northward. 
It was during the cruise of the “Belgica” in 1905 that this nor- 
therly coastwater was noticed for the first time, and since then, until 
1912, we have direct or indirect information regarding its existence, 
from which we either know that the coastwater has been seen, or can 
infer with certainty by the state of the ice that it had existed during 
the preceding summer. 
The information is this: 
In the year 1905 “Belgica” found open coastwater as far as Ile de 
France. 
1906 “Danmark” found broad coastwater as far as 
17°32’ N. Lat. 
1907 no coastwater on the northeast coast. (Danmark- 
Expedition). 
1908 “Danmark” found broad coastwater as far as 
78° N. Lat. 
1909 Plain evidence of open coastwater beyond 77°45’ 
N. Lat. (MIKKELSEN). 
1910 Broad coastwater as far as at least 78° N. Lat. 
(MIKKELSEN). 
1911 A very broad coastwater from Shannon Island 
northward to Ile de France, during the months of 
April, May and June, but probably no coastwater 
during the summer. (MIKKELSEN). 
1912 “Godthaab” found open coastwater off Koldewey 
Island to Cape Bismarck and beyond. 
From this material, covering a span of eight years, it will be seen 
that the coastwater has existed every year except one, and it will pro- 
bably not be a premature conclusion to infer that coastwater is found 
