BALLENY ISLANDS.— SCOTT ISLANDS. 
Buckle Island, which bears the active volcano, is probably 15 miles long. The 
surrounding cliff varies from 100 to 1000 feet in height, while above it the land rises 
as a dome to a height of about 4000 feet. The volcano is situated on the north end, 
which is otherwise low and flat. 
Sturge Island (Fig. 1) is about 20 miles long and 7 broad, and rises to a height 
of over 10,000 feet. It is claviform and smooth in outline, and appears as an elongated 
dome surrounded by a rock-cliff which varies from 1000 to 3000 feet in height. At 
the north end are seen roughly parallel irregular lines, dipping at an angle of about 
15° to the west. Approximately parallel to them are numerous conspicuous lenticular 
bands of light-yellow colour. The soundings in this area are uniform over great 
Fig. 1. — Stuege Island, Balleny Islands, showing tbansition prom “ Piedmont-agbodnd ” to “ Piedmont-afloat.” 
distances, ranging from 260 to 270 fathoms. The sea-bottom is covered with a mixture 
of rock-flour (902) * and ice-scratched stones (866),* including fragments of dolerite and 
micaceous schists (see pp. 135 and 139). 
Scott Islands. 
The Scott Islands were discovered by Captain Colbeck in December, 1902,f and 
are flat-topped rocky islets, which rise 300 feet sheer out of the shallow sea. The 
smaller is practically an isolated pillar (Haggitt’s Pillar), while the larger is about two 
miles across. Mr. J. D. Morrison landed on the larger island and collected specimens 
of a trachytic rock (see p. 114) regarding which he gave the following information : — - 
“No. 1 was taken from the south-east side, lat. 67° 24 '5' S., long. 179° 55*5' W., 
* The numbers refer to the author’s List of Specimens, 
t Colbeck, Geog. Journ., 1905, vol. xxv, plate, p. 402. 
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