352 discovery reports 



Season 1873-4 



'Grdnland', Ediiard Dallmati?!, January 2^-February 11, 1874. The group apparently quite clear 

 of pack-ice. On January 25 the ice-edge lay approximately 120 miles south of the South Orkneys 

 see p. 317)-^ 



Season 1892-3 



'Jason', C. A. Larsen, November i6-circa 24, 1892. The northern side of the group at least was 

 apparently clear of pack-ice (see p. 318). 



Season 1893-4 



'Jason', C. A. Larsen, November 23, 1893. The ice-edge lay approximately 150 miles to the south- 

 ward of the group. It was trending rapidly north-eastwards towards the South Orkneys which may 

 well have been blocked.^ 



Season 1902-3 



'Scotia', W. S. Bruce, February 2-5, 1903. Fairly heavy pack with scattered pools and lanes of 

 open water blocked the north, east, and apparently the south coasts of Laurie Island. Lewthwaite 

 and Washington Straits were blocked. Saddle Island was clear (surrounded by a pool of open water) 

 and a party from the 'Scotia' landed there. On February 2 the 'Scotia' met the ice-edge north- 

 north-east of Laurie Island in 60° 20' S, 43° 50' W. At this point it was compact and trending 

 slightly north-eastwards. Between the meridian of Cape Dundas and that of the southern tip of the 

 Sandwich group the ice-edge stretched roughly along the 60th parallel.* 



'Scotia', W. S. Bruce, March 21-30, 1903. The pack was evidently up to the southern side of the 

 group but not necessarily blocking it entirely. The eastern part of the south coast of Laurie Island 

 was heavily blocked, but to the east, north and south-west that island was clear. The 'Scotia' 

 steamed south through Lewthwaite Strait on March 23 and entered Scotia Bay, which was clear, on 

 March 25. The ice which lay immediately to the southward entered the bay two days later and be- 

 came consolidated on March 30. Note that a good deal of the pack encountered by the 'Scotia' on 

 February 2 would in the meantime appear to have dispersed, since Laurie Island from March 21 

 until March 25 seems if anything to have been less heavily beset than it was in early February. 



Winter season 1903 



Scottish expedition in winter quarters on Laurie Island, March ^o-November 27, 1903. From about 

 the beginning of April until the end of October the group was enveloped in what seems to have been 

 an only partially consolidated and constantly moving mass of pack-ice which probably did not extend 

 more than a few miles north of Saddle Island. Although Scotia Bay did not open until November 23, 

 by the end of October the greater part of the enveloping ice appears to have broken up, especially in 

 the north, and much of it to have dispersed. Uruguay Cove opened as early as July 17, while in the 

 south by October 19 a large part of the ice-sheet was entirely broken up. The 'Scotia' sailed for 

 South America on November 27. 



Season 1903-4 



Scottish and Argentine parties on Laurie Island, November 27, i()02,-AprilT,o, 1904. Almost through- 

 out the whole of this period the group appears to have been clear of pack-ice. 



'Scotia', W. S. Bruce, February 14-22, 1904. The group was entirely free of pack-ice. On 

 February 27 the 'Scotia' encountered streams of loose pack as she crossed the Antarctic Circle in 

 about 32° W. 



1 See L. Friederichsen's Originalkarte des Dirck Gherritz-Archipels, 1895 (Hamburg). 



2 Ibid. 



3 See Bruce, W. S., 1904, First Antarctic Voyage of the 'Scotia', Scott. Geog. Mag., xx. No. 11, p. 58. 



