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PLATE XXIV. COULMAN ISLAND. 



FIG. 1 (Map A). From a photograph by E. H. SHACKLETON (Sh. 41, ] -plate), 

 J.m. 15, 1902; showing part of the summit of Cape Wadworth. 



FIG. 2 (Map A). From a photograph by E. H. SHACKLETON (Sh. 40, ^-plate), 

 Jan. 15, 1902; showing the N.-W. side of the island. 



FIG. 3 (Map A). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 106, 5" x 4" 

 plate), Feb. 23, 1904 ; taken from eastward of the island ; shows part of 

 its north-eastern shores. 



" Piedmonts-aground are well represented along the sides of Coulman Island, 

 which has bare cliff-sides and a flat snow-covered top. It is surrounded by a 

 comparatively low ice- wall, produced by a talus of snow, which drifts off the 

 top of the cliff, and accumulates along the cliff-sides to form a nearly continuous 

 belt. . . . Such fringes as that of Coulman Island are sometimes as much as 

 15 miles long, but are rarely more than 2 miles broad. The snow encircles the 

 rock-cliff up to heights of 200 to 400 feet above sea-level, and the seaward edge 

 is not often more than 70 feet above water." Ferrar, Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. i., p. 66. 



