FRIDTJOF NANSEN. 



M.-N. Kl. 



there were Cand. Mag. ILLIT GRONDAHL and my son RARE (nearly 15 

 years old), as passengers, besides myself who was master of the ship. We 



were thus seven men 

 all told. 



We sailed from Ham- 

 merfest on July 8th 1912, 

 reached Bear Island on 

 July loth, and took some 

 few oceanographic stations 

 on the Bear Island Plat- 

 form south and north of 

 the island. Some few days 

 later we reached Spits- 

 bergen, and came to Green 

 Harbour on July i6th. 

 During the following days, 

 from July i8th to 2ist, 

 two oceanographic sta- 

 tions were taken at the 

 mouth of Ice Fjord. We 

 then sailed northwards 

 along the west coast of 

 Spitsbergen, in very 

 stormy weather. We went 

 into Cross Bay, where 

 two oceanographic sta- 

 tions were taken, on July 

 2Qth. We tried to take a 

 section with stations sea- 

 wards from the mouth of 

 Kings Bay, but after having 

 taken only a few stations 

 we were hindered by 

 storm. Our forestay was 

 broken, and as there was 

 danger of losing our rig- 

 ging we had to return to 

 Kings Bay for repair. We then sailed north-wards along the coast, and 

 a few days later, on August 3rd, we sailed north-north-westwards from 

 Norway Islands, near the north-western corner of Spitsbergen, to the edge 



Fig. i. The route of the Veslemoy, July 10 to Septem- 

 ber a, with Stations (i 57). Scale i : 5,000,00. 



