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vel gjengivet i Plancherne til Gaimards Rejse med -’la
Recherche". Vort Billede, der viser Sydsidens Bræer, er
taget fra cleu fremspringende Landtunge
"Begravelsespladsen". I Forgrunden sees, hvorledes det ser ud paa en
Campo santo paa Spidsbergen. Til Venstre se vi
Landtungen, der forbinder Begravelsespladsen med Land, og
udenfor denne den saakaldte Gully’s Glacier. Dennes Ende
hviler for en stor Del paa Fjæren, langs hvilken jeg
passerede foran den, men i Midten gaar Bræen ud i Havet
og her løsner stadig Stykker af den. Jeg blev Vidne til
et saadant Skuespil. En høj. Issøjle løste sig meel et Brag
fra Bræens yderste Væg. Den heldede udover og begyndte
sit Fald med en svingende Bevægelse, støttet paa sin
underste Ende. Jeg ventede at se den falde med hele sin
Sideflade i Vandet, men dette skede ikke. Da den havde
svunget udad en 30 Grader fra Verticalen, sank hele
Is-søjlen med Et sammen meel en gjennemgaaende
Vertical-be vægelse, knustes og strøedes som mindre Stykker over
Søen, der ved Faldet sattes i sterk Bølgegang. — Jeg var
oppe paa Bræen paa dens Nordside; den var uden større
Sprækker og havde en meget jevn Overflade.
I det indre Basin af Magdalena Bay gjenfanclt jeg de
af Charles Martins i 1839 maalte låve Dybtemperaturer.
Bundtemperaturen var her —2,°1, den laveste Temperatur
i Havet, jeg havde fundet paa hele vor Expedition. Og
her var et rigt arctiskt Dyreliv.
mirably rendered in the Plates annexed to Gaimard’s
voyage with "la Recherche." Our view of the glaciers of
the south-coast is taken from the tongue of land termed
"the burial ground."’ In the foreground, we have the
aspect of a Campo Santo on Spitzbergen. To the left
stretches the isthmus conuecting the burial-ground with the
main land, and off the former rises the so-called Gully’s
Glacier. The terminal portion of this glacier rests in
greater part on the beach, along which I strolled below it;
but the middle section projects into the sea, and here large
fragments are continually breaking off. I was myself
a witness of this gradual dismemberment. A lofty column
of ice parted with a loud crash from the outer wall of the
glacier. Supported at its lower end, the fall commenced
with a slow, swaying movement. I expected to see it strike
the water with the whole of its lateral surface, but in this
was mistaken; having swung some 30 degrees out of the
perpendicular, the entire column suddenly collapsed, taking
a well-nigh vertical direction, and was smashed to pieces^
the fragments being scattered over the sea, which became
violently agitated by the shock. I had ascended the
glacier from the north side; its surface was remarkably even
and exhibited no considerable fissures.
In the inner basin of Magdalena Bay I observed the
low cleep-sea temperatures found by Charles Martins in
1839. The bottom-temperature was — 2.°1 C., the
lowest temperature I at any time observed in the water of
the sea on the cruises of the Expedition. And yet these
depths disclosed an abundance of animal life.
Fra den 19de - til den 22de August laa Expeditionen
tilankers i Advent Bay. Isfjorden, Spidsbergen, medens
Maskinen eftersaaes. Denne Anledning benyttede Capt.
Wille til at optage et nøiagtigt Kart over Advent Bay,
der ofte besøges af norske Fangstfartøjer. Eftermiddagen
den 19de benyttedes til en Recognoscering, og der opsattes
nogle Signaler. Den 20de om Morgenen tog jeg paa Odden
(Basis A) en Række Solhøjder. (Se H. Mohn.
Astronomiske Observationer Side 19). En Grundlinie blev
udstukket og merket med Teltpinde paa det flade og jevne Terræn
langs Stranden. Grundlinien er i Kartet optrukket mellem
Punkterne A og B. Horizontalvinklerne til de nærmeste
Signaler maaltes med Theodolit: Ved Middagstid bestemtes
Azimut af Linien A C med Theodolit og Solen af Capt.
Wille og mig i Forening. Derpaa lik jeg atter nogle
Solhøjder. Om Eftermiddagen rejste Capt. Wille med Baad
rundt den indre Del af Bugten og maalte med Sextant
Horizontalvinklerne mellem de opsatte Signaler. Samtidig
hermed maalte jeg Grundliniens Længde. Jeg benyttede
hertil 3 Træstænger, af tilsammen 9.112 Meters Længde",
ret afskaarne for Enderne. Disse lagdes af mine
Assistenter, Baadsmanden og en Matros, fra Basis B af paa Jorden,
From the 19th to the 22nd of August, the
"Voringen" lay at anchor in Advent Bay, lee Sound, Spitzbergen.
her engines having to be cleaned and examined. Capt.
Wille took advantage of this opportunity to construct a map
of x^dvent Bay, a locality which is frequently visited by
Norwegian fishing vessels. The afternoon of the 19th was
devoted to reconnoitring in the vicinity of the Bay, and a few
signals were erected. On the morning of the 20th, I took
from the tongue of land (Base A) a series of solar altitudes
(See H. Mohn. Astronomical Observations, p. 19). A base
line was marked out with tent-pegs along the flat, beachy
strand. On the Map, the base line extends between the
points A and B. About noon, Capt. Wille and myself
determined with the theodolite the azimuth of the line AC
by the sun. I then succeeded in taking another series of
solar altitudes. In the afternoon, Capt. Wille rowed round
the inner shore of the Bay, and measured with the sextant
the horizontal angles between the signals. Whilst he was
thus engaged, I measured the length of the base line. For
this purpose, I made use of three wooden rods, cut straight
off at the ends, measuring together 9.112 metres. These
rods were placed on the ground by my two assistants, the
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