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more snow-covered than is the land further to the south, and the coast, which is 
parallel to the mountains, faces north-east. The mountains here form the main part 
of the Admiralty Range of Ross. They diminish in altitude as one passes westward 
to Cape North, and with the decrease in height there is a corresponding increase in the 
proportion of the snow-covered area. At Cape North itself the covering of snow is 
almost uninterrupted. Here the peaks which form the horizon are all of the pyramidal 
type, and they have their easterly shoulders truncated sharply at the shore. There 
are no deep valleys, but the snow often exhibits prominent series of terraces, one above 
another and parallel to the coast, and the whole is somewhat suggestive of the existence 
of some horizontal structure in the rock beneath. 
(2) The Range which occupies the 250 miles of coast between Cape Adare 
and Cape Washington forms the highest, and perhaps the largest, land-mass. 
This area lies to the south of area (1), the Cape North portion, and is continuous 
with it. In the south its line of peaks recedes so far from the coast that the 
connection between this area and the third, or Prince Albert, section is not yet known. 
Here one sees the possibility of a division into two distinct geological areas, for low 
foothills are almost continuous along the whole length of the coast from the Cape 
Adare promontory to Cape Sibbal'd* or even Cape Washington itself. Behind these 
foothills there appears to lie a depression, which takes the form of a series of valleys 
running north-and-south, and behind the depression is a wall, or possibly a fault-face 
or escarpment, which rises to heights of 10,000 feet, and has weathered into a series 
of fine pyramidal peaks. 
Many photographs illustrate the form of the range, and some show peaks, 
such as Mount Minto and Mount Adam, which rise as enormous gables from a 
plateau already high, and thus do not greatly overshadow the surrounding 
mountains. 
At the head of Robertson Bay the depression at the foot of the mountains 
resolves itself into a valley, and even the bay itself may be considered a continuation 
of this. On the south side of Mount Melbourne this depression is again prominent ; 
here it resolves itself into a valley running out to the south-east, and having the 
volcano (Mount Melbourne) as a part of its left bank, affording evidence that the 
mountain is situated upon a line of fault. 
(3) The Prince Albert Mountains, 200 miles in length * and trending due 
north and south, is the lowest large area of land seen by the Expedition. This range 
is important, not only because it is practically new, but because of its extreme uni- 
formity of character. It is highest at the north end, where Mount Nansen, mentioned 
above, rises to 8788 feet, is lowest about the centre, latitude 76° S., where it is only 
about 3500 feet (Mount George Murray, 3591 feet), and rises again to 8000 feet (Horse- 
shoe Mount, 8228 feet) on the latitude of Mount Erebus. It is remarkable that here 
the eastern border is always steep and gives one the impression that it is only the 
outlying edge of some great plateau from which streams of ice come down between 
