Udenfor Norges Vestkyst, mellem den 59. og 68. 
Breddegrad, løber Strømmen nordover med betydelig Fart, 
indtil 20 Kv.mil i Døgnet (0.44 m. p. S.). Her mødes 
Strømmen fra Østersøen, fra Atlanterhavet og fra Islands 
Østkyst. 
Henimod Midten af Havet aftager Strømmens Hastig- 
hed raskt. I en Afstand af 300 Kilometer fra Norges 
Kyst er den ikke mere end 5—6 Kvmil. 
Nordenfor Stad løber Strømmen langs Norges Kyst 
og fortsætter, følgende Continentet, langs Russekysten og 
Novaja Semlja. Udenfor Nordland er Hastigheden 8 Kvmil 
(0.17 m) til 11 Kvmil (0.23 m). Udenfor Finmarkskysten 
gaar den op til 16 Kvm. (0.35 m), men længere øst i 
Østhavet bliver den igjen ringere (8 Kvm. =0.17 m). At 
den ved Novaja Semlja er saavidt høj, skyldes de ferske 
Vandmasser fra Hvidehavet (Dwina) og Petschora. 
Langs Spidsbergens Østkyst løber Strømmen mod 
Syd. Mellem Spidsbergen og Beeren Eiland tager den 
vestgaaende Strøm fra Østhavet en mere nordlig Retning. 
Hastigheden er her 6 Kvm. (0.13 m). Paa Strøget ved 
15° W Led. fandt Capt. Otto* i Slutningen af November 
og Begyndelsen af December med 14 Dages midlere Vind- 
retning EK 8° S, Hastighed 15 m. p. S. (6 Beaufort Skala) 
en Strom, der satte mod N 26° W med en Fart af 11 
Kym. 1 24 Timer. Den normale Vindretning og Hastighed 
er her (Pl. XXXT) E, lidt nordlig, 4 m. p. 8. 
Langs Spidsbergens Vestkyst løber Strømmen med 
stor Fart nordover. Efter Kartet gaar Hastigheden op til 
17 Kvm. (0.36 m). Strømmen hidrører aabenbart for en 
stor Del fra Ferskvandet fra Spidsbergens Breer. Da 
“Voringen” dampede nordover paa disse Kanter, viste 
det sig, at vi avancerede med en Fart, der var 1 Knob 
(24 Kvm. i Døgnet) større end den, som Loggen angav. 
Spidsbergstrømmen gaar, under de herskende østlige 
Vindes Indflydelse, efterhaanden paa sin venstre Bred over 
i den grønlandske Polarstrøm. Større eller mindre Partier 
losrives og flyttes vestover, saaledes som vi have seet i 
Profilerne XXIII, Pl. XITT og XXVIII, Pl. XIV, Station 
Nor 3851 (079 497 IN, 02 9° Wi). I Station No. 303 (75° 
12’ N, 3° 2’ E, Tversnit XIX, Pl. XII), der lgger i 
Polarstrommen, fandt Professor Sars, at Overfladens Fauna 
var atlantisk. 
Den indre, Grønland nærmeste, Del af Polarstrommen 
har sit Udspring 1 den indre Del af det arktiske Ishav. 
Parry's bekjendte Rejse viste, at Isen nordenfor Spidsbergen 
drev mod Syd. Mod Øst begrændset af det mod Syd til- 
1 Christiania Videnskabsselskabs Forhandlinger, 18 
Petermann's Mittheilungen, 1873, S. 257. 
g 
78, Su 379. 
Den norske Nordhavsexpedition. H. Mohn: Nordhavets Dybder, Temperatur og Strømninger. 2: 
Off the West Coast of Norway, between the 59th 
and 63rd parallels of latitude, the current sets northward, 
with considerable velocity, reaching 20 nautical miles in 
24 hours (0.44 m. per sec.). Here the currents meet 
from the Baltic, from the Atlantic Ocean, and from the 
east coast of Iceland. 
Towards the middle of the Norwegian Sea, the velocity 
of the current diminishes rapidly. At a distance of 300 
kilometres from the coast of Norway, it is not more than 
5—6 nautical miles. 
North of Stad, the current sets along the coast of 
Norway, and flows on, following the line of the continent, 
along the shores of Russia and Novaja Semlja. Off the 
coast of Nordland, the velocity is from 8 to 11 nautical 
miles (0.17 m. to 0.23 m.) Off the coast of Finmark, it 
rises to 16 nautical miles (0.35 m.); but farther east, in 
the Barents Sea, it again diminishes (8 naut. miles = 0.17 m.). 
The relatively high rate at Novaja Semlja must be ascribed 
to the masses of fresh water from the White Sea (the 
Dwina) and the Peschora river. 
Along the east coast of Spitzbergen, the current flows 
towards the south. Between Spitzbergen and Beeren Ei- 
land, the current from the Barents Sea, setting west, takes a 
more northerly direction. The velocity is here 6 nautical miles 
(0.13 m.). In the tract about long. 15° W, Capt. Otto! found 
at the close of November and the beginning of December, with 
a forthnight's mean direction of the wind, EH 8°S, and a 
mean velocity of 15 m. per sec. (6 Beaufort Scale), a current 
setting N 26° W, at the rate of 11 nautical miles in 24 hours. 
The normal direction and velocity of the wind are here 
(Pl. XXXT) east, a little northerly, and 4 m. per see. 
Along the west coast of Spitzbergen, the current sets 
with great velocity northward. A'ccording to the map, its 
velocity reaches 17 nautical miles (0.56 m). This current 
obviously originates, to a great extent, in the fresh water 
from Spitzbergen’s glaciers. As the *Vøringen” was 
steaming northward in these regions, we found her speed 
to be greater by 1 knot (24 naut. miles in 24 hours) than 
the log indicated. 
The Spitzbergen current, acted on by the prevailing 
easterly winds, passes gradually with its left border into 
the Greenland Polar current. Larger and smaller patches 
are disengaged and carried off westward, as seen in 
the profiles XXTIT, Pl. XT, and XXVIII, Pl XIV, 
Station 351 (lat. 77° 49’ N, long. 0° 9’ W). At Sta- 
tion 303 (lat. 75° 12’ N, long. 3° 2’ EK, transverse section 
XIX, Pl. XII), located in the Polar current, Professor 
Sars found the fauna of the surface quite Atlantic. 
The inner part of the Polar current, nearest Green- 
land, has its origin in the inner basin of the Arctic Ocean. 
Parry’s well-known voyage clearly showed that the ice 
north of Spitzbergen was drifting southward. On the east 
1 Christiania Videnskabsselskabs Forhandlinger, 1873, p. 379. 
Petermanns Mittheilungen, 1873, p. 257. 
