The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [‎370r] (92/232)

THE DANISH EAST GREENLAND EXPEDITION IN 1900.
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travelled along the coast for almost half a year, partly in an ice-hoat,
and partly with sledges, and had many exciting accidents and narrow
escapes, the coast being, I dare say, one of the most inhospitable in the
world, with its steep cliffs and numerous large glaciers, and with the
polar ice driving with the current along the coast.
The ship expedition, under the leadership of Dr. N. Hartz, left Cape
Dalton on July 22, and examined and mapped the coast to Scoresby
sound. From July 1 to July 20, the expedition carried out scientific
researches in Hurry inlet and Scoresby sound. Then the expedition
left the sound, landed at Cape Grey, on the Liverpool coast, on July 23,
and mapped and examined the bays west of Cape Gladstone. The expe
dition then made a short run in Davy sound and King Oscar’s bay, and
left the east coast of Greenland on September 1. After a short stay at
Dyrefjord, in Iceland, the ship arrived at Tasiusak on September 11,
when I took the leadership of the expedition and the command of the
ship. We left Tasiusak on September 18, and arrived at Copenhagen
on October 4.
Besides the mapping * of the coasts and bays, the expedition brought
home fine palaeontological, geological, zoological, and botanical collections;
also a living specimen of the musk ox, and ten living specimens of the
lemming (Myodes torquatus). Four ermines were killed and brought
VIEW FROM THE XOR1H SIDE OF KAUGEUDLUGSUAK.
* The new chart of the unknown coast and of the bays west of Cape Gladstone is
still unfinished, and is for this reason not shown in the sketch-map.