Soon they were increasing in size and showing fractures, indicating that we were travelling on a glacier.

As the daylight brightened the fog dissipated; the lake could be seen more clearly, but still we could not discover its east shore.

A little later the fog lifted completely, and then we saw that our lake stretched to the horizon, and realized suddenly that we were looking down upon the open sea on the east coast of the island.

The slight pulsation at the shore showed that the sea was not even frozen; it was the bad light that had deceived us.
Evidently we were at the top of Possession Bay, and the island at that point could not be more than five miles across from the head of King Haakon Bay.

Our rough chart was inaccurate.