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being broken off the highest accessible point, about 12 feet above water-level. The 
strata seemed about 2 feet thick, dipping to the south-east side at an angle of 45°, 
striking S.W. and N.E.” 
The Possession Islands. 
This group consists of two large and five small islands, close under the highest 
peaks of South Victoria Land and about 5 miles off shore and a little north of the 72nd 
parallel of latitude (Fig. 2). They were discovered by Sir James Clarke Ross in 1841, 
when a landing was made and rock-specimens were collected. They include basalts, 
palagouite-tuff, phonolite, and fragments of granite, but the latter were probably not 
found in situ * Mr. C. E. Borchgrevink and Captain Jenssen both landed here in 
Fig. 2. — Two op the Possession Islands. 
The tallee one shows the junction of two types op kock. 
1895, and collected rock-material. The specimens brought back by the former have 
been described by Messrs. T. W. E. David, W. F. Smeeth and J. A. Schofield. f 
In December, 1902, Mr. Morrison, landing from the relief ship ‘ Morning,’ 
collected rock-specimens. He obtained only two types of rock in situ : one (No. 2) is a 
palagonite-tuff and the other (No. 3) a grey hornblende-basalt. He gave the following 
information relative to them : — No. 2 was taken from the south-west shore of Posses- 
sion Island, 18 feet above water-level, lat. 71° 5G' S., long. 171° 10' E. There are no 
signs of stratification, but there is a very distinct vertical line-of- parting between the 
I'ocks forming Nos. 2 and 3. No. 3 was taken from a piece of ice floating close in 
shore on the S.S.E. side. The cliffs are about 150 feet high and overhanging.” 
From the view seen from the deck of the 1 Discovery,’ it would appear that the 
higher part is composed of palagonite-tuff, and the south side, ending in a bold clift 300 
* Prior, Mineralogical Magazine, 1899, vol. xii, p. 75. 
f Journ. Roy. Soc., New South Wales, 1895, vol. xxix, pp. 461-492, 
