398 APPENDIX III 



From the exhaustive investigations carried out by Scott's and 

 Shackleton's expeditions it appears that South Victoria Land is 

 a plateau land, consisting of a foundation platform, of great thick- 

 ness and prominence, above which lie remains, of greater or less 

 extent, of Palaeozoic formations, horizontally bedded. From the 

 specimens of rock brought home by Roald Amundsen's expedition 

 it is established that the plateau of foundation rocks is continued 

 eastward to Amundsen's route to the South Pole, and that King 

 Edward VII. Land is probably a northern continuation, on the 

 eastern side of Ross Sea, of the foundation rock plateau of South 

 Victoria Land. 



Christiania, 

 September 26, 1912. 



