PLATE XIII. CAPE ADARE. 



FIG. 1. From a photograph taken by E. H. SHACKLETON (Sh. 36, ^-plate) ; looking 

 N.-W. from the moraine flats at Cape Adare, Jan. 9, 1902. 



FIG. 2. From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 41, ^-plate) ; looking N. 

 from the moraine flats at Cape Adare, Jan. 9, 1902. 



The extensive "beach" at Cape Adare is a mass of re-sorted moraines. 

 Its average height is somewhat less than 20 feet above the sea, and it consists 

 of parallel series of ridge-and-furrow with amplitude of about four feet. The 

 ridges, which are occupied by a large rookery of Adelie Penguins during summer, 

 flatten northward ; and the depressions, which contain stagnant water, sometimes 

 join up and form large digitating ponds. 



See Ferrar, Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. i., p. 80. 



On this "beach," in the middle of the Penguin "rookery," is the wooden 

 hut which was built and inhabited by the members of the " Southern Cross " 

 Expedition, sent out under Mr Borchgrevink by Sir George Newnes in 1898. 

 It is visible in the centre of Fig. 2, just above the shore line. 



