PLATE XIX. MOUNT SABINE. 



FIG. 1 (Map A). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 121, 5" x 4" 

 plate) ; looking S. from Cape Adare to Mount Sabine, at the head of 

 Eobertson Bay, Jan. 9, 1902. 



FIG. 2 (Map A). From a telephotograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 44, -plate) ; 

 looking S. from Cape Adare to Mount Sabine, at the head of Robertson 

 Bay, Jan. 9, 1902. 



Mount Sabine, the highest peak of the Admiralty Range, was discovered in 

 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross, who thus writes in his Voyage to the Antarctic 

 Regions (vol. i., pp. 183, 185) : 



" It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of 

 the two ma'gniticent ranges of mountains, whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered 

 with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet 

 above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, 

 and which descended from near the mountain summits, projected in many 

 places several miles into the sea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular cliffs. " 



" The highest mountain of this range I named after Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Sabine, of the Royal Artillery, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, one of 

 the best and earliest friends of my youth, and to whom this compliment was 

 more especially due, as having been the first proposer and one of the most 

 active and zealous promoters of the expedition." 



Compare Plate CXXX. 



