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or near to the 170° E. meridian. Ninety-.six geographical miles south of Corner Camp, at 

 79° 30' S., 169° 22' E., was the main depot on the Barrier called One Ton Camp. There 

 was considerable passing to and fro between Cape Evans and One Ton Camp, but beyond 

 this point journeys were made only during the summer of 1911-12 in connection with the 

 main Polar journey. 



Framheim. — As far as one can gather from the published account of Captain Amundsen's 

 Expedition, the situation at Framheim was ideal from a meteorological point of view. The 

 house itself was erected on the surface of the Barrier about one and a half miles from 

 the sea ice in Whale Bay, and there were no hills anywhere near which could affect the 

 force or direction of the wind. 



The general conditions at Framheim are entirely differoit from tho.se at either of the two 

 other stations in the Ro.ss Sea area. To the south the Barrier extends as an unbroken 

 level plain and to the north exists the Ross Sea, the ice conditions of which have already 

 been considered. The ice conditions in the immediate neighbourhood of Framheim are of 

 importance, but Amundsen has given no information of the state of the sea ice at different 

 times of the year. Looking at the map (frontispiece), however, we see that the permanent 

 ice which bounds the Ro.'-'s Sea on the east leaves a bay on the south of which Framheim 

 lies. It is very probable that this bay freezes over very early in the winter and that the 

 ice attains a considerable thickness. 



Cape Adare. — Cape Adare is the northern point of a promontory twenty miles long which 

 forms a kind of horn to the extreme north-easterly point of South Victoria Land. The promontory 



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