Identifier: norwayitsglacier00forb (find matches)
Title: Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Forbes, James David, 1809-1868
Subjects: Glaciers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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stratus clouds near the suns disc clearingaway, it rose to 17°, 19^°, 20°, and finally 22°, about mid-night, or very little later—the suns disc being now free ofany distinguishable cloud, and the photometer standing onan insulated barrel on the deck, therefore almost free ofextraneous reflection. The glacier-clad mountains of theBergs-fiord were bathed in the horizontal ruddy light as westood across the open sea to touch at Hasvig, on the islandof Soro, which was our utmost northern latitude. The Bergs-fiord mountains just mentioned form theseaward part of the peninsula of the Jokuls-field. Theprincipal glacier which descends from them was describedto me by a gentleman on board perfectly acquainted withthe locality, as one of the most remarkable, and, at thesame time, the most accessible on the coast. It reaches,he assured us, within a quarter of an hours walk of thesea, and there is a safe anchorage in the Bergs-fiord, beingalmost land-locked by the large island of Silden. This
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Q o i</) D Ui X h- O (f) DCUJ O< o GLACIERS OF NUS-FIORD. 81 was exactly the sort of glacier I was anxious to visit, andI hoped that upon our return voyage the captain mighthave taken the inner passage, and given me an opportunityof landing at a far less expense of time than our visit tothe Pippertind glacier must have required; but I saw thatthere were objections, and 1 consequently lost this interest-ing sight. The sound, which extends from Silden Island towards theAlten-fiord, is called the Stjerno Sound, as it separates themainland from an island of that name. In our northernvoyage we passed through it in the night, and with astrong head wind; but on our return I was enabled toexamine closely the features of the snow-crowned coast.The most important glaciers succeeding those of the Bergs-fiord joccur in the Nus-fiord, a small inlet of this StjernoSound; they also descend from the Jokuls-field. From aninspection of the drawing (See Plate V.), it will be seen thatthese glacier

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