[7] Icebergs of considerable size have been described as having been seen off Franz Josef Land, but I can only say with reference to this that during the whole of our voyage through this archipelago we saw nothing of the kind. The one mentioned here was the biggest of all those we came across, and they were, compared with the Greenland icebergs, quite insignificant masses of glacier-ice.
[8] I have called it granite in my diary, but it was in reality a very coarse-grained basalt. The specimens I took have unfortunately been lost.
[9] “Houen’s Island.”
[10] “Torup’s Island.”
[11] This color is owing to a beautiful minute red alga, which grows on the snow (generally Spaerella nivalis). There were also some yellowish-green patches in this snow, which must certainly be attributed to another species of alga.
[12] It proved later to be Crown Prince Rudolf’s Land.
[13] Off Brögger’s Foreland.
[14] Clements Markham’s Foreland.
[15] Helland’s Foreland.
[16] On Helland’s Foreland.