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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Penguins are scarce on the island and were seen only in small numbers on Allen and 

 Scarlett Points. Two Weddell seal were noticed on some rocks on the north-east side, 

 with another near by on an ice floe. No sign of plant life was seen anywhere. 



The only recorded landing is by Larsen, who with some difficulty succeeded in 

 putting two men ashore on some rocks "at the southern point of the island" — pre- 

 sumably on Allen Point. 



Bristol Island 

 Lat. 59° oil' S; long. 26° 31' W 



(Plates XXIV, XXV and XXVI; Fig. 15) 



This island is roughly oval in shape, with a projection on the north side ending in 

 Fryer Point^ and with Harker Point'^ in the south. From east to west it is about 5 miles 

 in length, and from north to south 4! miles; its circumference is 14 miles. The highest 

 point of the island is Mt Darnley,^ 3600 ft. in height, situated to the south of the middle. 

 To the north-east is a second summit of about 1600 ft., and in the east is a conical hill, 

 1200 ft. high, which forms a conspicuous land-mark (Plate XXV, figs. 1,3; Fig. 15 a). 

 On the south side of the island is a great bluff of rock, rising very steeply from the water- 

 line to a height of 1900 ft. 



Fig. 15. Bristol Island: sketches by Lt.-Cmdr. J. Irving. 



a. From the N by E: distant about 6 miles. 



b. From the SW: Grindle Rock, the inner of the three outlying rocks about i mile distant. 



c. Freezeland Peak from the NE: bearing 220° and distant 3-2 miles. 



To the west of the island stand three rocky islets of imposing appearance. The outer- 

 most, situated 3 miles from the mainland, is a magnificent structure, with a towering 

 pillar of rock 900 ft. in height and a lesser summit of about 620 ft. (Plate XXVI, figs. 1,2; 

 Fig. 15 f). This rock was the landfall that Cook made when he discovered the South 

 Sandwich Group, and he named it Freezeland Peak after the man who first sighted it. 

 The middle and inner rocks, which we have named Wilson Rock* and Grindle Rock,^ 

 are respectively 500 and 700 ft. in height (Plate XXVI, figs. 3,4). 



1 D. H. Fryer, Lt.-Cmdr., R.N., Captain of H.M. Surveying Ship 'Fitzroy '. 

 ^ A. Harker, of Messrs Flannery, Baggallay and Johnson, Consulting Naval Architects. 

 ^ E. R. Darnley, Chairman of the Discovery Committee. 



^ Sir Samuel H. Wilson, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.B.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies. 

 ^ Sir Gilbert E. A. Grindle, K.C.M.G., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. 



