APPENDIX III 



GEOLOGY 



Provisional Remarks on the Examination of the Geological 

 Specimens brought by Roald Amundsen's South Polar 

 Expedition FROM THE Antarctic Continent (South Victoria 

 Land and King Edward VII. Land). By J. Schetelig, 

 Secretary oftheMineralogical Institute of Christiania 

 University, 



The collection of specimens of rocks brought back by Mr. Roald 

 Amundsen from his South Polar expedition has been sent by him 

 to the Mineralogical Institute of the University, the Director of 

 which, Professor W. C. Brogger, has been good enough to entrust 

 to me the work of examining this rare and valuable material, 

 which gives us information of the structure of hitherto untrodden 

 regions. 



Roald Amundsen himself brought back altogether about twenty 

 specimens of various kinds of rock from Mount Betty, which lies 

 in lat. 85° 8' S. Lieutenant Prestrud's expedition to King 

 Edward VII. Land collected in all about thirty specimens from 

 Scotfs Nunatak, which was the only mountain bare of snow that 

 this expedition met with on its route. A number of the stones 

 from Scott's Nunatak were brought away because they were thickly 

 overgrown with lichens. These specimens of lichens have been 

 sent to the Botanical Museum of the University. 



A first cursory examination of the material was enough to show 



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