490 



NEW LAND. 



previous years. The maximum for the year, 11*5 Cent., was on 

 July 14. The mean temperature for the year was about 19 Cent. 

 Such a low average temperature is not known from any point in the 

 whole of Arctic America, with the exception of Grinnell Land. For 

 the sake of comparison it may be mentioned that the average tempera- 

 ture for the year at the pole of cold in Siberia (Werchojansk) is 

 -17 Cent. 



WINDS. 



In one respect a similarity may be said to have existed between the 

 winds at our winter quarters in Gaasefjord, 1900-1901, and in Havne- 

 fjord, inasmuch as their direction was chiefly influenced by local 

 conditions. In Gaasefjord, which was narrow and ran almost north and 

 south, the wind was always more or less compelled to follow the 

 direction of the fjord. East winds merged more or less into south- 

 easterly or southerly ones ; west winds, when they came over the isthmus 

 at the head of the fjord, or through Skrabedalen, became more or 

 less northerly. I have, therefore, in the following, tabulated all winds 

 as either north or south. The latter, however, are very often south- 

 east, and it could plainly be seen by the drift of the clouds that a north 

 wind outside the fjord became inside it north-west, west, or even south- 

 west. 



SUMMARY OF THE WlND OBSERVATIONS FROM OCTOBER 1, 1900, TO OCTOBER 1, 1901. 



Twelve observations daily during a year should give a total of 

 4380 observations ; of these, however, thirty-three are wanting, hence 

 the number given of 4347. 



