IV. 



Ihe small North Star Bay on the south side of Wolsten- 

 holm Sound is separated from the main fjord by a small 

 peninsula, lying chiefly in the direction from east to west. 

 Furthest west this peninsula ends in a characteristic hill, which 

 has the form of a broken cone with evenly sloping sides and 

 a horizontal level on the lop of no small extent. This hill, 

 which is quite 200m high, is called by the Eskimos Umanark 

 (IJmanak), a name which is commonly used all over Greenland 

 for such isolated, projecting mountains; the word is derived 

 from umat, heart, and would thus mean heart-shaped. 



To the north-east of Umanark, but on the north-west side 

 of the small peninsula towards Wolstenholm Sound, lies the 

 settlement Umanark. It consists of some groups of winter- 

 houses, which lie scattered along the coast at intervals of some 

 few hundred meters. The most southerly group , which is 

 composed of 6 houses, seems to be the one most used at the 

 present time. In the summer time all the houses lay more or 

 less open, the skins were entirely or partially out of the win- 

 dows in all and in most the roof had been partially pulled 

 down. Further there were empty houses which had not been 

 used in recent years and also others which were so old, broken 

 down and overgrown with grass, that it was only from the cir- 

 cular elevation with the depression in the middle, that one 

 could conclude, a winter-hut had formerly been there. It was 

 evident that stones had been removed from these old places 

 to be used in building the new houses. 



