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On tha ahelf juat off the ooast bvtweoa North 

 Cape sad SteiunsErlaBBS Fjord tiiere ia not suffioient tMMk 

 ■liWiUcw the bottom aedls^iits* It is, bovm-ver, geaerfilly 

 roclfy and the coast is farijigad with many reefs. The aud 

 in stdlagriBBaiS jjord is based only on the pr@aenee of 

 en snclosecL besln reaching 31 fathoiKS in depth. It is 

 not kno^n wh«th«»r this mii& is continuous toith the m3&. 

 in l^kftga strand Bay, iColla FJoixl, south of Steinf^Timam 

 Fjord, may very well contain mud also .^inee it is near* 

 ly closed off by a roelc bar eorosa the loouth, 



Haaafl&t i)eeip. Bathymetry and Bottom sediments 



l^hie gre^t deep, lyiit^^ between Strsnda aruad 

 end iiia^s^ Gruad, reaches depths of over two hundred 

 fethcMS ne&r ita outer end, fhe lOO-fathom depth curve, 

 bounding the deep, runs imbroken a® far south as Latitude 

 66 degrees U, v^le isolated basins over 100 fathoaas 

 de&p continue 17 miles further aouth. An isolated sub- 

 inerine ridge, rising from 20 to 50 fathot&a above the 

 auiTounding better, lies st latitude 66 degrees 11 mln<* 

 utes K,, Ix>n{:^itude 20 degrees 55 minutes W, This ridge 

 2&i:>y owe its origin to the faulting which formed Honefloi 

 Seep, 



For the ttoet part ^lunafldi Dmep is floored 

 with aatd, A few petehes aad areas of send, gravel, »nd 



