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into the coast in perfectly open water and made a landing on Kolde- 

 wey Island at 76°20' N. lat. 



At length the Expedition had reached right into the coast and 

 for the first time set foot on the promised land, which now for over 

 two years was to witness their successful advance through the wide- 

 stretched and completely unknown regions. 



A cairn was built at the landing place, the Danish flag unfurled 

 above and a report on the voyage and the visit of the Expedition to 

 the island placed underneath. 



After the landing party had returned onboard, the voyage was 

 continued at 6.15 p. m. northwards towards Cape Bismarck until 

 10 p. m. Here Mylius-Erichsex and Trolle went ashore to survey 

 the land. As it seemed to show favourable possibilities of winter 

 quarters, the investigation and survey was continued until 2 p. m. 

 of August 14th, with the most fortunate and extremely favourable 

 result, that a small bay was found on the south side of Germania Land, 

 which seemed excellently suited to serve as wnter harbour. 



At 2 p. m. the voyage was continued northwards along the coast 

 at a distance of ca. 6 miles, past Cape Bismarck and on towards Cape 

 Philippe in very scattered ice and open coastal water. 



On August 15th at 6 a. m., when the ship was close to the south 

 of He de France at 77°30' N. lat. and 18°30' W. long., all advance was 

 stopped by dense, impenetrable pack-ice. It was then resolved to 

 turn back to winter quarters at Cape Bismarck. After the flag was 

 hoisted at the northernmost latitude reached by the Expedition this 

 year, the course was again set southwards at 9 a.m. At 5.30 p.m. the 

 vessel was moored to the ice off Cape Marie Valdemar. Here at Cape 

 Marie Valdemar instead of at the planned Station A (see p. 53), which 

 had become superfluous N\ath such a northerly harbour, a large depot 

 of provisions for the sledge journeys was landed over a mile of un- 

 broken ice. 



Further, a motor-boat expedition set out from the ship, with 

 the object mainly of charting the district between He de France and 

 Cape Bismarck. The party consisted of Bertelsen, artist; Brøn- 

 LUND, kaiakman and hunter; Hagen, assistant for survey work; Hage- 

 RUP, engineer in motor-boat; Koch, cartographer and leader of the 

 expedition; Lindhard, botanist. 



The motor-boat carried a kaiak and sledge and had a whale-boat 

 in tow. The expedition was to meet the ship in the winter quarters 

 in the course of 14 days (see p. 77). 



On August 16th at 3 a. m. the depot was landed, but meanwhile 

 the ice had set in close round the ship and some large floes threatened 

 to press it up against the fast land-ice. The situation was far from 

 pleasant. For 3 hard hours there was continuous mameuvring to get 

 clear of the ice-edge. By 6.30 a. m. success was attained, fortunately, 



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