Note 179 — Chapter XLII · EAST COAST OF GREENLAND—DANISH EXPEDITIONS

Peary’s point at the place he calls “Navy Cliff,” where he says he saw the sea and called it “Independence Bay,” is over a hundred miles from the sea or any bay. He may have seen the end of the long narrow fjord which Erichsen discovered. But his channel across Greenland does not exist, and there is continuous land between the position Peary gives to his Navy Cliff and his Heilprin Land to the north.