Note 49 — Chapter V · JOURNEY BY SLEDGE TO THE FLIGELY FJORD. DISCOVERY OF COAL LAYERS ON KUHN ISLAND. 14TH TO 21ST SEPT., 1869.[48]
Lewis Page Mercier translation
This Fjord had for the most part been free from ice in the summer. The heat in the two summer months is here so great that it will melt ice of seven feet thickness, which is not possible in the outer coast in these latitudes. The ice outside the Fjord remained firm all the summer.