In 1888 Dr. P. Nansen, with Lieutenant Sverdrup and
four others, was left by a whaler on the ice-pack border-
ing the east of Greenland about latitude 65°, and in sight
of the coast. For twelve days the party was on the ice-



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pack floating south, and so actually reached the coast only
about latitude 64°. From this point they attempted to
cross the inland ice in a northwesterly direction towards
Christianshaab. They soon reached a height of 7,000
feet, and were compelled by seyere northerly storms to
diverge from their course, taking a direction more to the
west. The greatest height attained was 9,500 feet, and
the party arrived on the western coast at Ameralik Fiord,
a little south of Godhaab, about the same latitude at which
they entered.
