CONTENTS 



Introduction page 285 



History of the Islands 287 



Nineteenth-century Exploration 



George Powell and Nathaniel Brown Palmer 294 



The First Chart of the South Orkneys 305 



James Weddell 306 



Weddell's Chart 310 



Robert Fildes' Chart 312 



Dumont D'Urville 313 



The French Chart 314 



The British Admiralty Chart, No. 1238 315 



Dallmann, Lynch and Larsen 317 



Unrecorded Voyages 318 



Recent Research and Commercial Exploitation 



The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 319 



The Argentine Meteorological Station 321 



The Argentine Chart 322 



The Whalers 322 



Norwegian Hydrographic Work 325 



The Work of the Vessels of the Discovery Committee 327 



The Recent Survey of the Islands 328 



Description of the Islands 334 



Approaches, Harbours and Tides 339 



The Scotia Arc 342 



Climate 344 



Pack-ice 347 



Icebergs 357 



Glaciation . . . .' 359 



Physiography, with a Note on Rock Joints 363 



Vegetation, with a Note on Kelp 367 



Seals 370 



Appendix I. The CoUembola. By W. Maldw^'n Davies 379 



Appendix II. The Mosses. By H. N. Dixon 380 



Plates XII— XXV folloiving page 382 



Chart I in pocket at end 



