Olaf Fønss

Frank Stoll, mine owner and stock market speculator

Carl Lauritzen

West, mine foreman

Ebba Thomsen

Dina, West's daughter and Flint's fiancée

Johanne Fritz-Petersen

Edith, West's daughter

Thorleif Lund

Flint, miner

Alf Blütecher

Reymers, coxswain

Frederik Jacobsen

The wandering preacher

K. Zimmerman

Professor Wissmann, astronomical scholar

Moritz Bielawski

Erik Holberg