Fis(. 1. Lake at the Harbour. August. 



I. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE LIEE OF INSECTS 

 AND ARACHNIDS IN NORTH-EAST GREENLAND. 



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FRITZ JOHANSEN. 



The "Danmark" Expedition was stationed al "Danmark's Havn" 

 (76'" 46' N. L., 18° 14' W. L.) from August ITtli 1906 to July 21st 

 1908. The investigations on the insect life thus extended over the 

 latter half of August 1906, the summer of 1907 and the early 

 summer of 1908. 



Three parts mainly of the country were investigated, near the 

 outer coast (ship's harbour), further up the fjord ("Stormkap") and 

 right in at the head of the Ijord ("Hvalrosodden"). The physical 

 features are naturally not quite the same at these three different 

 places, but the following general remarks may be made regarding 

 them. The ground consists mainly of raised sea-bottom, in the form 

 usually of extensive, flat, gravel or clay plains with practically no 

 vegetation, the latter being found almost exclusively in the damper, 

 small depressions or in larger or smaller valleys, and that especially 

 along the courses of running water and freshwater lakes. Further 

 inland these i)Iains change over in places to large stretches of stony 



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