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lor the purpose of carrying out supplementary investigations and 

 laying depots. At the harbour an observatory and iiouse will at once 

 be built on land lor the physicist and his two assistants, the two 

 engineers. A sledge expedition from the harbour will extend its jour- 

 ney right up to St. A, to inform the party there of the position of the 

 harbour. 



The darkest time of the year will be used in working up the 

 scientific material collected and in preparation for the sledge journey. 



About the beginning of February 11 members including the leader 

 will set out for St. A in several small groups under the direction of 

 the leader. There they will be divided into the following groups. 



1. A meteorologist with two men remain at the station. 



2. A cartographer with two men will drive out over the sea ice 

 (to make soundings and investigate whether there may be new islands 

 between North-East Greenland and Spitzbergen). 



3. 9 men in 3 groups will journey northwards along the coast; 

 of these: 



3 a. Two men will go from Independence Bay to the most easterly 

 point reached by Peary, Wyckoff Island ' at 83° N. lat., and if pos- 

 sible further north over the ice, whilst 



3 b. The leader and 3 men will pass up the Peary Channel partly 

 through the de Long Fjord, partly round Nares Land. On the coasts 

 of Independence Bay, 



3 с The 3 men of the third group will make investigations and 

 prepare meat depots by hunting against the return of the two other 

 groups. On April 15th at the latest the groups will meet in Indepen- 

 dence Bay and woi'k together round Academy Land, whereupon they 

 will divide into groups and complete the investigation of the coast 

 and fjords down to St. A. 



Before the end of May 1907 all must have left St. A and returned 

 to the ship. 



Between February and June those left at the ship will undertake 

 supplementary investigations to the wesl- of the harbour and up to- 

 wards St. A. 



Summer 1907. 

 When the ice breaks up in June 1907 the ship will sail along the 

 coast to the south and the outer coast and fjords will be investigated 

 if possible right into the head of Kejser Franz Josephs Fjord. Here a 

 winter house will be built for a meteorologist and two men with a depot, 

 St. B, for the sledge journeys of the coming winter, which will be made 

 mostly on the inland ice. Before the new ice forms, the vessel will 

 seek winter quarters near the mouth of the fjord, for example, at 

 Mackenzie Bay. 



Cape Clarence VVyckolT. Notf by Editor. 



