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Chapter III. 
THE MAINLAND OF SOUTH VICTORIA LAND. 
Cape Adare. 
It will not be out of place to supply here a few additional notes on the rocks of 
Cape Adare, latitude 71° S. It may be pointed out that the Cape lies at the foot of 
the gigantic Admiralty Range, and is formed of horizontal sheets of basalt and basalt- 
Fig. 6. — Cape Adabe Peninsula, fbom Ross Sea. 
agglomerate, similar to those which occur in Coulman Island and perhaps the other 
islands oil’ the coast. 
The peninsula of Cape Adare (Fig. 6) consists mainly of nearly horizontal sheets of 
basaltic lava laid one above another to form a flat-topped promontory, which gradually 
increases in height from north-west to south-east. Dykes occasionally cut across 
these sheets.* The successive sheets are thinner and more numerous at the north-west 
VOL. I. 
Prior, Rep. 1 Southern Cross’ Collections (British Museum), 1902, p. 327. 
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