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EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
Facts concerning ships which have penetrated the ice to the east coast 
of Greenland. 
| Enteredtheicee |2s | 3% 
| Year | Month || Name of the on Su || SS 
| | ship wos S En | Er 
| Lat. | Long. |“ | МЕ 
1) 18227] I IN pain | 74°39"| 4°10" | 73°43 
| \ June ii 
2 | August Hercules | 73°41’| 7° 74° 
3 | 1823 — Griper 74° 152 74° 207 
4 || 1869 == Germania | 74900'| 14° 14° 30" 
5| 1891 | July Hekla | 76°13’) 0°04’ | 74° 00 2 Poe SØER 
6| 1896 | June | Lykkens Prøve | 74° NS | 14° 
7 1898 | July Anna | 73° 192 74° 
818992 June" Antarctic. || 74302 52 74° 30" | 
9! — | May | Anna | 74250'| 5° || 73°06’) 16° 
10| 1900 | June | Søstrene | 76°30'| 3230" | 74930" | 
| July, Antarctic | 74°30'| 5° 74° 30’ | 
12); — — | Fritjof | 72° 00’ | 10° | | 
13 | 19001 RE | Laura | 71°30’ | 12° | 73° | { SELDE Gr ie ice very 
14| — |August| Belgica || 74°10’ 12° 74° 45’ | 
15| 1903 | — | Søstrene || 74° 10° |194 
16 | 1904 | .— Laura | 72°30’/ 12° | 78° ню Ce 
17 | 1905 | Мау Exelsior | 75°40'| 0° | 1274], PE el 
18| — | July Belgica 107620022162 | 76° 
о = | Magdalene | 73°00’| 5° | 15° 
ее |200 5 øge 
| | [№ Severin J | | 
51| 1906 | — Laura | 75900'| 3° |.73930' | 17° 
22| — |August| Danmark | 75°14’| 4° || 76°20’ | 
23 1900 || Laura 75° | 75° | 
94 | 1908 | June | Laura | 75° de | 75° | Te 
| — | July {| ieee | Gram er alt 2) | fo 78010", ‘where. IE ПВО 
| | “N Vesterisen JS | J) | by unbroken ice. The good con- 
26 1909 | June | Belgica | 71° 7° || 73°30" | | waite aot that ie aes 
Sl = July Laura 75° || 74° | | tends so far in a northern direction 
28| — |August| Alabama | 75°03’| 11° 15°35" | 
29! 1910 | June Laura | 749 1327 04 74000" 
80| — | — Minerva TAS SON OC ae 
31 || 1911 |: July Laura 13° | ee all 
32 | 1912 | — Godthaab | 76° 3° II. 702 | 
to great changes owing to the meteorological conditions during the pre- 
ceding winter; thus in seasons following upon a éold and calm winter 
the area covered with stationary ice will be very much larger than in 
springs following upon warmer or more windy winters. This again implies 
that less ice passes between the shoal and Spitzbergen, and this com- 
paratively smaller amount of drift-ice, when once south of the Belgica 
