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out of the ice. On September 11th the Antarctic arrived at Angmag- 

 salik and the whole expedition once more together left for home on 

 September 18th. 



Amdrup had thus solved the task allotted to him, as the coast 

 from ca. 66° N. lat. to Scoresby Sound had now at last been explored. 



In the same year that Amdrup undertook his boat expedition 

 northwards from Angmagsalik, a Swedish expedition sailed for the 

 northern part of the east coast of Greenland. The intention of this 

 expedition was, if possible, to find traces of Andrée, who had as- 

 cended in a balloon on July 11th 1897 from Danish Island on Spitz- 

 bergen to explore the Polar regions. On July 13th he had despatched 

 a message by a carrier pigeon and since then nothing had been heard 

 of him ^. 



With the Polar vessel "Antarctic" the expedition sailed from 

 Stockholm on May 20th 1899, the Swedish Professor A. G. Nathorst 

 being in command ^. On June 27th the Antarctic stood into the 

 ice and on July 6th a landing was made on Pendulum Island. After 

 a short stay here the Antarctic on July 12th sailed southwards along 

 the coast, landing at several places, and on the 29th anchored off 

 Gape Stewart in Scoresby Sound. After exploring the head of Hurry 

 Inlet, Nathorst again turned northwards on August 7th and from 

 the 9th till the 30th of August travelled over and charted the whole 

 of the large and previously unknown fjord complex, which is formed 

 by the inner branches of Davy Sound and Kejser Franz Josephs Fjord, 

 thus proving that these fjords were connected. 



On August 30th Nathorst left the east coast of Greenland and 

 passed out of the ice-belt already on September 1st. 



In the following year a Swedish expedition again set sail for 

 Greenland's east coast, but simply and solely for zoological pur- 

 poses. The expedition, which was under the direction of Gustav 

 Kolthoff, arrived on July 31st at Mackenzie Bay onboard the 

 hired whaler ТгНЫо!". After making a detour northwards to 74°.58' 

 N. lat. KoLTHOFF entered Kejser Franz Josephs Fjord on August 

 14th and Muskox Fjord on the 15th, where he remained until Augu.st 

 23rd. On August 25th the expedition left the east coast of Green- 

 land ^. 



It will thus be seen from the foregoing, that the whole of the 

 east coast of Greenland right from Gape Farvel (59°46') to Cape Bis- 

 marck (77^01') had been surveyed and charted in the course of the 

 19th century. 



1 Ymer 1897. Heft 3, p. 221 and Heft 4, p. 267. 



- A. G. Nathorst: Två Somrar i Хогга Ishafvet. Senare Delen. Stock- 

 holm 1900. 



Ymer 1900. Heft 2, p. 11.5. 

 ' Ymer 1900. Heft 3, p. 34.5. 



