No wind, the clouds rising, we could almost see the sun. Thus, we began the day with successfully drying our equipment – from tents via sleeping bags to clothes – and went later for fieldwork along the southern shore of Selvågen, looking mainly for the tillite (glacial deposits) marked on the maps. What a surprise that we instead found a highly deformed conglomerate which compositionally and structurally looks very much like the Vimsodden conglomerate in Wedell Jarlsberg Land. We also recognized the ”ugly” mudstone breccia which in northern Prins Karls Forland is underlying the high grade metamorphic rocks in the Pinkie Formation. With different nomenclatures from different research groups, sometimes several times revised, the stratigraphy on Prins Karls Forland is a mess and it is difficult to compare our observations with earlier descriptions. However, our findings are promising.

About a kilometre from our tents we stumbled across an old camp, maybe from Atkinsons geological fieldwork in the 1950s. We came back just in time before the weather decided that we and our tents are not acceptable in a dry state. Now we have again clouds and fog at sea level and everything which leaves the tent for one second is wet from all sides…

Henning Lorenz, Uppsala universitet