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of the rocks which compose it, a character abundantly proved by the sledge-parties 
who passed along the deep glacier-tilled valleys that cross it eastward to the sea. 
(5) The four separate ranges which determine the 300 miles of almost straight 
coast to the south of latitude 79° S. appear to be exactly similar to those already 
considered, and may be dismissed with the mention of the plateau-character which 
is strikingly shown and beautifully illustrated by Dr. Wilson’s sketches, made 
during the great journey to the south, when Captain Scott, Lieutenant Shackleton, 
and Dr. Wilson reached latitude 82° 16' 33" S. These sketches are all the more 
valuable in that they were made by an unprejudiced observer. 
Each of the four ranges averages 8000 feet in height ; they are separated by 
wide channels far below the level of the plateaux, and such channels, having straight 
and exceedingly steep sides, 
appear to be typical features 
in the geography of all South 
Victorian mountain ranges. 
King Edward VII Land 
(Fig. 10). 
Fig. 10. — King Edward VII Land. 
This land lies at the 
eastern end of the Great 
Ice Barrier of Ross, and is, 
therefore, connected with the 
mainland by ice at least. 
It lies between latitudes 7G and 78° S., and longitudes 148° and 160 W. It 
rises 2000 to 3000 feet high and is almost wholly snow-covered. The coast trends 
N.E.-and-S.W., and appears to be banked with low foothills completely covered with 
snow. It consists of two parts: (l) an isolated headland, some 1500 feet high and 
10 miles long, standing well before (2) which, except for the low and isolated peak 
at the north-east end, is smooth and tabular, but is completely snow-covered. The 
two areas are separated by a comparatively low snow-covered depression. 
The headland is unsymmetrical in shape and has a steep cliff on its north 
side ; at three places, where too steep to hold the snow, there are good rock- 
exposures. The land was not visited, but specimens obtained from a dredge-haul 
(256-258) and from two icebergs consist of granites and gneisses and not of 
volcanic rocks. As the current is south-west along the coast, the rocks dredged 
up cannot have been carried far; it is also quite improbable that the icebergs can 
have travelled any great distance. 
