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var nemlig blevet noget let paa Vandet, navnlig trængte
Agterenden til at komme noget dybere. I Løbet af disse
Dage gjordes Exkursioner til Landet indenfor Norskøerne.
Kl. 4 Fredag Eftermiddag den 10de afgik vi atter
fra Norskøerne, tog et Lodskud med Temperatumekke
udenfor Hakluyt Head. Spidsbergens Nordvestpynt. og
sejlede derpaa ned igjennem Smeerenberg-Sundet, østenom
Amsterdam-Øen og Dansk-Øen, og ud gjennem Syd-Gat, efter
det af Beechey og Franklin i 1818 optagne Kart. hvorefter
vi Kl. 12’/.. om Natten ankrede i Magdalena Bay indenfor
Halvøen med Begravelsespladsen. Baade i Smeerenberg og
i Magdalena Bay er Dalene fyldte med store Isbræer, der gaar
lige i Søen, og de fra disse løsbrukne Isstykker flyder om
i Sundene og Bugterne. Kl. 9 om Aftenen den 17de
loddede og trawlede vi i Magdalena Bay, i hvis inderste Del
vi fandt den laveste Temperatur i Søen paa hele
Expeditionen, nemlig — 2° C., ved Bunden paa 61 Favnes Dyb.
medens Dyrelivet sammesteds var meget rigt. ja selv Fiske
kom op i Trawlen. Fra Magdalena Bay styrede vi mod
Sydvest udenom Prince Charles Foreland. Den 18de tog
vi 4 Lodskud og en Trawl, og den 19de var vi om
Morgenen i Isfjordens Munding, hvor der loddedes, toges
Temperaturrække og trawledes." .Kl. 21/.2 Efterm. samme Dag
gik Expeditionen til Ankers i x^dvent Bay paa Is-Fjördens
Sydside. Landet her gjør en Undtagelse fra det ovenfor
beskrevne Spidsbergenske Islandskab. idet Dalene her er
fri for Isbræer. Jeg gik strax igang med at optage et
Kart over denne af Spidsbergensl’arere meget besøgte Bugt.
og medens en Del af Medlemmerne var paa en Udflugt op
i Landet, arbejdede jeg hermed, assisteret af Professor
Mohn. der maalte Grundlinie, enkelte Horizontalvinkler og
Solhøjder til Polhøjde- og Tidsbestemmelse, samt Skibsfører
Grieg, der udførte Lodninger. Selv maalte jeg de fleste
Horizontalvinkler. tog Azimutbestemmelsen, Lodskud og
tegnede Kartet. Da de til Kartets Konstruktion
nødvendige Observationer var udførte, lettede vi den 22de om
Aftenen, tog en Trawl i Mundingen af Bugten, og styrede
ud af Isfjorden. Det var Meningen den næste Dag at
anløbe Bell-Sund. men det blev tyk Taage og Kursen
sattes da hjem mod Norge. Kl. 12 om Natten mellem den
23de og 24de August toges sidste Lodskud og
Temperaturrække. og Mandag Middag den 26de August ankredes i
Tromsø, hvor vi strax gik i Gang med at fylde Kul og
rengjøre Kjedlen. Vi havde da været under Damp
uafbrudt i 30 Døgn, idet vi ikke slukkede af under Opholdet
i Advent Bay paa Grund af den låve Temperatur, der
gjorde Opvarmning af Arbejdsrummet nødvendigt.
Kl. 2 om Morgenen den 29de August afgik vi fra Tromsø
og ankom Kl. lo1 , Fonn. den 4de September til Bergen,
got too high on the water, more especially her sternpart.
During our stay here excursions were made to the
mainland.
On Friday the 16th, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon,
we again left the Norway Islands, took a sounding, along
with a serial temperature, oft" Hakluyt Head, the
northwestern extremity of Spitzbergen. and then steamed on
through Smeerenberg Sound, east of Amsterdam Island
and Danish Island, and out through South Gåt, steering
by the chart Beechey and Franklin constructed in 1818.
after which we proceeded to Magdalena Bay. where the
ship dropped her anchor, at 12.30 a.m.. east of the
peninsula with the burial-ground. "Both at Smeerenberg and
Magdalena Bay the valleys are filled up with glaciers,
projecting into the sea; and fragments of dislocated ice
float about in the sounds and bays. At 9 o’clock on
the evening of the 17th we sounded and trawled in
Magdalena Bay. where, in its inner part, was found the lowest
temperature registered on the Expedition, viz. — 2° C.. at
a bottom-depth of 61 fathoms. This spot was
characterised by a rich variety of animal life. — nay even fishes
came up in the trawl. From Magdalena Bay we steered
south-west, rounding Prince Charles Foreland. On the
18th we took 4 soundings and a cast of the trawl, and
on the morning of the 19th had reached the entrance to
lee Sound, where we sounded, took serial temperatures, and
trawled. At half-past two. on the afternoon of the same
day, the Expedition anchored in Advent Bay on the south
shore of the lee Sound. The land here forms an
exception to the icy region of Spitzbergen described above, no
glaciers encumbering the vallies. I immediately prepared
to draw up a chart of this bay. so much visited by sealing
and fishing vessels, and while part of the Scientific Staff were
away on an excursion into the country, continued this work,
with assistance from Professor Mohn. who measured the
base, some of the horizontal angles and altitudes for
determining latitude and time, and from Captain Grieg, who
took soundings. Most of the horizontal angles I measured
myself; I made. too. azimuth observations, took soundings,
and drew the chart. After all the observations required
for the construction of the chart had been taken, we
weighed anchor, on the evening of the 22nd. took a cast
of the trawl at the entrance to the bay. and steered out
øf lee Sound. Our intention had been on. the
following day to touch at Bell-Sound; but a thick fog coming
on, we stood direct for Norway. At midnight on the
23rd of August the last sounding and serial
temperature were taken, and on Monday the 26th. about 12 o’clock
at noon, the Expedition reached Tromsø, where we at once
commenced taking in water and cleaning the boilers. The
vessel had been under steam for 30 successive days, the
engine-fires having been kept burning during our stay at
Advent Bay. in order to heat the work-rooms, which the
low temperature prevailing in that locality rendered
necessary.
On the 29th of August, at 2 o’clock in the morning,
the Expedition left Tromsø, and on the forenoon of the
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