Field Notebook: Greenland 1987b
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South-east coast of Greenland. (Mansen, Petermanns Mittheilungen, Ergänz. XXIII, 1893, pp.53-64). Mansen in traveled along the east coast from about 61°30' north to about 64°30'. The inland ice covers the land very gently and he believes there are but few fjords in this region. The coast is low and rounded from 62°5' to 62°20'. From the latter it is high and serrated to 63°10 and then somewhat lower to 64°30'. The lowest inland land is 677m. rising to 2300m. The low rounded portion he thinks over its properly an ice cap while the serrated portion was not covered by an ice cap and owes its shape to weathering. He saw no sedimentaries all is gneiss, granite and eruptive. See Meddelelser om Grønland, IX, 1889. for another account of this area.