ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION—RONNE 379 
most Cape Smitty, and two glaciers flowing into the inlet from the 
west Johnston Glacier and Kelsey Glacier. These glaciers showed 
only a very few crevasses where they met the inlet. Incased on both 
sides by mountains, they appeared like smooth, wide thoroughfares 
leading to the elevated land to the west. 
About 50 miles south of Mount Tricorn we suddenly came upon a 
large bay, some 55 miles deep and 25 miles wide, Gardner Bay (map, 
fig. 2). Almost in the center, and connected with the head by a low- 
lying peninsula, was a striking snow-covered dome mountain with 
rock outcrops on the sides, Mount Austin (map, fig. 2). Three 
glaciers flowed into the bay from the high mountainous land to the 
west. Those coming in from the north I named Irvine and Wetmore 
Glaciers, and the one on the south side Ketchum Glacier. Ketchum 
Glacier was heavily crevassed. It was about 5 miles wide where it 
entered the bay, and it was joined by a tributary glacier from the 
southeast. The headland on the north side of the entrance to Gardner 
Bay I named Cape Adams, and the headland on the south side Cape 
Schlossbach. Rock outcropped on the east and south sides of Cape 
Adams and on the east side of Cape Schlossbach. Twenty-five miles 
to the northwest of Mount Austin was another mountain, its black, 
vertical cliff facing east, Mount Robertson. 
LANDING IN THE FIELD 
I decided to land both planes next to Mount Austin (8,200 feet), 
since it was easily recognizable from the air and could serve excellently 
as a flight stand-by base. Also, Adams had just reported from the 
Norseman that half the gasoline supply in his fuselage tanks had been 
used and the remainder would be needed for the return flight to Cape 
Keeler. Both planes came in for a landing less than 3 miles away from 
the sloping mountainside. The surface was so smooth and soft that 
we could not tell the exact moment when the skis touched. Once on the 
ground, I began making calculations. From the speed of our plane and 
the length of time the flight had taken, it was immediately evident that 
Mount Tricorn had not been correctly located on the maps—according 
to my rough calculations, it was about 50 miles farther to the north. 
While the men were fueling the Beechcraft, I took sights with a 
bubble sextant to determine our exact location. Upon our return 6% 
hours later, I took another series of sights, which gave me an accurate 
fix and established our plane base at Mount Austin as being in 74°48’ 
S., 62°50’ W. Our position proved that Mount Tricorn was 55 miles 
farther northwest than had previously been thought, and it revealed 
another interesting fact. Southward from Cape Knowles, in 71° 45’ 
S., the entire coast line was about 30 miles farther to the west than it 
had previously been plotted, and its configuration was considerably 
different. 
