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EARTH FEATURES AND THEIR MEANING 



than those examined in Greenland and Victoria Land. Here in 

 Kaiser Wilhelm Land the ice rises at its sea margin in a cliff which 

 is from 130 to 165 feet in height, then upon a fairly steeply curving 



FIG. 310. Map showing the inland ice of Victoria Land bordered by the shelf 

 ice of the Great Ross Barrier. The arrows show the direction of the prevailing 

 winds (based on maps by Scott and Shackleton). 



slope to an elevation of perhaps a thousand feet. Here the grades 

 have become relatively level, and on ever flatter slopes the surface 

 appears to continue into the distant interior (plate 14). Near 

 the ice margin numerous fissures betray a motion within the mass 



