The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-13
THE SWEDISH ARCTIC EXPEDI-


 The Antarctic, with the Swedish Arc tic expedition under Dr. A. c. Nath- orst, has returned to Tromso, after a successful cruise to the seas and is- lands around Spitzbergen. pr, Nath- orst sends some notes on the results of the expedition. The Antarctic left Tromso on June 8, and proceeded to bear Island, which was reached on the 11th; a week was spent there. The whole island was surveyed, and an ex- cellent may on the scale of 1:5O,0O0 was drawn by Lieutenant Kjellstrov and Dr. Hamberg which shows that the old maps are quite incorrect.
 The geological work was also suc- cessful Previously only carboniferous strata were known and an old rock without fossils. In this the expedition found fossils showing the age to be Si- lurian; and, besides, another series was discovered. the age of which is proba- bly, Devonian. The geologists also dis covered fossils in the Three Crowns" forming the top of Mount Misery, which will probably prove to be of Ju- rassic age. The geology of the little is- land is consequently of great interest. Some new geological and botanical dis coveries were made also. From Bear Island the Antarctic proceeded to Ho- per. but heavy swell unfortunately made landing impossible so that the ex- petition had to content themselves with photographing the island from all sides. From Hooper the Antarctic went east of Spitzbergen in order to ascer- tain the position of the ice-pack but, as was expected, the ice did not permit of the expedition reaching King Charles Land They consequently sailed round the west of Spitzbergen, when Bell Sound was surveyed and mapped; a most necessary work since 1 the old maps of Van Mijen Bay are very incomplete.
 1 After having visited some points of | interest in Ice Sound, the expedition proceeded westwards and did some hy- drogra phical work as far as the margin of the Greenland ice-pack {7S degrees 1 minute north latitude, 4 degrees min- ] utes west longitude). Hence the ship was turned to the south and east of l Spitzbergen and reached King Charles Land, which was completely mapped on the scale of 1.100,000 and surveyed. Hence the Antarctic proceeded to White Island, which was cireumnavi- gated; the expedition landed at the only two places where landing is poss- ble and the geology of the island was ascertained. This island is curious in- deed-completeIy covered by an ice cap, which is broken off at the sea shore, ending in a perpendicular ice 1 wall, just as is found on the Antarctic continent, though in miniature. Great table-formed ice-bergs are given off from this ice-sheet. From White Is- 1 land, which is larger than indicated on the maps, the Antarctic made it's way through alternating heavy ice and open water to Charles XII. Island whence the expedition proceeded northwards and reached S1 degrees IA minutes north latitude Had the expedition been there a fortnight earlier they would certainly have reached a higher lati- tude. but northerly winds had pre- vailed for some time, so that the pack had been driven south.
 The expedition then passed north ot the Seven Islands and proceeded te Treuenberg Bay Grey Hook and Danes Island, from which they steered south wards along the western coast of Spitz- bergen When the Antarctic reached the south end of Prince Charles Fore land the circumnavigation of the who'll | of Spitzbergen, with the surrounding