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merkeligste 1 dette Snit er et TemperaturMinimum paa 
—1°3 inde paa Banken, omgivet paa begge Sider af 
Varmegrader. Dette er Tversnittet gjennem en Tunge af 
iskoldt Vand, der langs Bunden skyder sig frem fra Stor- 
fjorden østenfor Spidsbergens Sydkap, som Kartet over 
Bundtemperaturerne (Pl. X XV) viser. 
Tversnit XXI gaar fra SW mod NE mellem den 
75. og 76. Breddegrad sondentor Spidsbergens Sydkap fra 
Nordhavsdybet til Storfjorden. Det gaar langs Længde- 
axen af den under forrige Tversnit omtalte iskolde Kile. 
En Temperaturrække af Weyprecht udenfor Sydkap (W) 
sutter sig ganske til de norske. Maximumstemperaturen, 
over 4", ligger under Overfladen. Da Bundtemperaturerne 
paa Banken, regnet tra NE mod SW, give Tallene -— 10.1, 
— 1°.3 og — 0.4 har jeg antaget, at selve Nulgradslinien 
findes strax udenfor (vestenfor) Station 328, og at den is- 
kolde Kile paa Banken ikke rækker ned i Nordhavsdybets 
iskolde Vand, hvor 0°, efter Bundtemperaturkartet, først bliver 
at-soge 1 500 Favnes Dyb. Formen for Isothermen for 
1°, der fjerner sig fra Bankens bratte Skraaning, tyder dog 
paa, at den kolde Kile fra Storfjorden ved sin Vest-Ende 
udøver en merkelig Afkjøling, som imidlertid ikke kan an- 
tages at bringe Temperaturen paa Banken mellem 220 og 
500 Favne helt ned til 0°. 
Tversnit XXII, Pl. XII, gaar fra Grønland (75° 
N. Br.) over Svenskedybet til Spidsbergens Sydkap. Den 
højeste Temperatur, 49, ligger som et afsluttet Parti under 
Overfladen udenfor Banken. Alle Varmegrader ligge paa 
Østsiden, ved Spidsbergen. Nul Grad naar ned til 500 
Favne. Isothermerne for — 1° til — 1°.4 skyde 1 de øvre 
Lag en Tunge østover fra Grønlandshavet. I Svenskedybet 
er fundet — 19.5. 
Tversnit XXIII gaar fra Grønland (76° 25’ N. Br.) 
over Svenskedybet til Isfjorden paa Spidsbergens Vestkyst. 
Den højeste Temperatur, over 3°, ligger over Kystbankens 
Eg, men under Overfladen. Inde i Isfjorden er det koldere, 
saavel i Overfladen, som ved Bunden, hvor Kuldegrader 
træffes. Varmegraderne indtage et ndskrenket Rum uden- 
for Spidsbergen og gaa ned til 500 Fayne. Ved Station 
351 træffes et løsrevet Parti Vand med Varmegrader i 
omkring 100 Faynes Dyb. I Grønlandshavets Dyb er 
Temperaturen under — 19,5. 
Tversnit XXIV gaar over Spidsbergbanken udenfor 
Prins Charles Foreland langs den 79. Breddegrad. Iso- 
thermen for 2° sænker sig udenfor Banken ned til henimod 
Zero is met with at a depth of 480 fathoms. The most 
remarkable characteristic in this section consists of a mini- 
mum-temperature, — 193, on the bank itself, shut in on 
both sides by degrees above 0°. his transverse section 
cuts through a tongue of ice-cold water, pressing forward 
along the bottom from the Storfjord, east of the southern 
extremity of Spitzbergen, as shown by the Map of Bot- 
tom-Temperatures (Pl. X XV). 
Section X XI extends from the SW towards the NE, 
between the 75th and the 76th parallels of latitude, south 
of the southern extremity of Spitzbergen, from the North- 
Ocean Deep to the Storfjord. It passes along the longi- 
tudinal axis of the ice-cold wedge alluded to when deserib- 
ing the preceding transverse section. A serial temper- 
ature taken by Weyprecht off South Cape, Spitzbergen 
(W), agrees in every respect with those of the Norwegian 
explorers. The maximum-temperature, upwards of 4°, 
lies below the surface. The bottom-temperatures on the 
bank, from NE towards SW, giving the figures — 19,1, 
— 1°.3, and — 09,4, I have ventured to assume that the 
line for 0° occurs immediately off (west of) Station 328, 
and that the ice-cold water on the bank does not reach 
down into the ice-cold water of the North-Ocean Deep, 
where 0°, according to the Map of Bottom-Temperatures, does 
not make its appearance at a depth of less than 500 fathoms. 
The form of the isotherm for 1°, which extends from the 
steep declivity of the bank, would seem however to imply 
that the ice-cold wedge from the Storfjord exerts at its 
western extremity an appreciable cooling influence, but 
which cannot be assumed to bring the temperature on the 
bank, between 220 and 500 fathoms, fully down to 0° 
Section XXII, Pl. XIII, extends from Greenland 
(lat. 75° N) ‘across the Swedish Deep to the southern 
extremity of Spitzbergen. The highest temperature, 4°, 
extendmg, so to speak, as an isolated patch, lies beneath the 
surface, off the bank. All degrees above 0° occur on the 
east side, off Spitzbergen, and 0° reaches down to 500 fathoms. 
The isotherms for — 1° to — 1°4 send off eastwards in 
the upper strata a tongue of water from the Greenland 
Sea. In the Swedish Deep, a temperature of — 1°.5 has 
been registered. 
Section XXIII extends from Greenland (lat. 76° 25’ 
N) across the Swedish Deep to Ice Sound, on the west 
coast of Spitzbergen. The highest temperature, more than 3°, 
occurs over the edge of the coastal bank, but below the 
surface. In Ice Sound, some distance from the mouth, 
the water is colder, both at the surface and at the bottom, 
where a temperature below 0° is observed. The temper- 
atures above 09 occupy a confined space off the coast 
of Spitzbergen, and descend to a depth of 500 fathoms. 
At Station 351 there is an isolated patch of water with a 
temperature above 0° at a depth of about 100 fathoms, 
In the Deep of the Greenland Sea the temperature is below 
— 19,5. 
Section XXIV extends across the Spitzbergen Bank, 
off Prince Charles Foreland, along the 79th parallel of 
latitude. The isotherm for 2° sinks off the bank to a depth 
