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APPENDIX TO THE REPORT ON THE FIELD-GEOLOGY. 
NOTES RELATIVE TO MACQUARIE AND AUCKLAND ISLANDS, 
OUTSIDE THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE. 
Macquarie Island (Fig. 57). 
Macquarie Island is situated in the South Indian Oceau in latitude 54° 30' S., 
longitude 158° 30' E., and it has been suggested that it is part of the “zone of 
Fig. 57. — The Strand and the Steep Coast-line op the east side op Macquarie Island. 
fire ” * which connects New Zealand with Mount Erebus and Mount Terror. It is 
about 23 miles long and five miles broad. It has an average height of 500 feet, 
but one of its peaks rises to quite 2000 feet. The longer axis is in a north-east 
and south-west direction and the south-east side is a precipitous cliff almost 200 
feet high. The foreshore is narrow and the cliffs are remarkably straight ; they 
* Judd, ‘ Volcanoes,’ 3rd edit., 1885, p. 230; Scrope, ‘ Volcanos,’ 2nd edit., 1862, p. 471 ; Bonney, ‘ Volcanoes,’ 
1899; map of distribution of Volcanoes at end of the volume. 
