A GEOLOGICAL SKETCH OF CAPE FLORA AND ITS 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



BY 



FRIDTJOF NANSEN. 



The geology of Cape Flora and its neighbourhood has been subjected to 

 special researches by Dr. Reginald Kcettlitz, the geologist of the Jackson- 

 Harmsworth Expedition, who stayed there for three years (1894 — 1897). The 

 results of his important investigations have been most ably described by Dr. 

 KcETTLiTZ himself^, and his collections have been examined and described by 

 Messrs. E. T. Newton and J. J. H. Teall^. Much valuable information 

 about the geology of this little-known country has thus been obtained. There 

 are, however, still many open or doubtful questions left, which will have to 

 wait for future researches made on the spot, if they are to be fully settled. 

 In the mean time, I trust that every contribution, imperfect though it may 

 be, to our knowledge in this respect, will be welcome. 



During my stay at Mr. Jackson's house, Elmwood, on Cape Flora, from June 

 l?*'^ to August 7*^ 1896, I used what little time there was left me from other 

 important work, to study, in company with Dr. Koettlitz, the geology of this 

 interesting neighbourhood. Through Jackson's kindness and with Koettlitz's 

 valuable assistance, I thus was enabled, amongst other things, to make a collec- 

 tion of fossils and rocks from the Jurassic deposits of this locaHty. 



1 Dr. Reginald Koettlitz. „Observations on the Geology of Franz Josef Land." Quar- 

 terly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. LIV (1898), pp. 620-645. See also his 

 „Brief Sketch of the Geology". Geographical Journal, vol. IX (1898), pp. 132-135. 



2 E T. Nevd;on and J. J. H. Teall, „Notes on a Collection of Rocks and Fossils from 

 Franz Josef Land, made by the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition during 1894 — 1896." 

 Quart. Journ. Geol, Soc. vol. LIII (1897), pp. 477—519; and also ibid. vol. LIV (1898), 

 pp. 646 651. 



