A RESUME OF THE PHYSIOGRAPHY AND GLACIAL 
GEOLOGY OF VICTORIA LAND, ANTARCTICA 
By GriFFITH TayYLor, B.Sc., B.E., B.A., F.G.S. 
It is always a wise principle in research to proceed from the 
known to the unknown. So little has been written on the subject 
in question that we should have almost a blank sheet were it not 
for the geologists of Shackleton’s Expedition, whose detailed 
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work is not yet published. Let us glance at a map of the South 
Polar regions, however, and see if we can deduce any useful 
principles from neighbouring lands. 
The physiography of the eastern coast of Australia has been 
subjected to a somewhat detailed investigation during the last 
ten years, with the result that it is found to exhibit splendid ex- 
amples of subsidence, trough faulting, and rivers ‘ drowned’ by 
the sea. Great slices of the coast have sunk below the waves 
fairly lately in geological times, so that many of the great rivers 
