PLATE XXX. THE SHOEES OF WOOD BAY. 



FIG. 1 (Map A). Mount Melbourne ; from a photograph by II. W. SKELTON 

 (S. 106, 5" x 4" plate), Feb. 21, 1902. 



FIG. 2 (Map A). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 103, 5" x 4" plate), 

 Feb. 21, 1902. 



Wood Bay, bounded by Mount Melbourne and Cape Washington to the S., 

 and to the N. by Mount Monteagle and Cape Sibbald, is as fine a specimen of 

 glacier scenery as may be found along this grand but ice-ridden and inhospitable 

 coast. 



Mount Melbourne is a volcano, but quiescent ; though the fleecy clouds which 

 so persistently hung upon the summit while it was in sight to us suggested that 

 there were still vents open from which steam could issue. The excessively dirty 

 ice-cliff shown in Fig. 2 may be taken probably as an indication of wind ; the 

 ice, covered with blown grit for countless ages, is now a fraction of its former 

 depth. Such concentrations of old ice are abundant in South Victoria Land, 

 where the rate of disintegration by evaporation and summer melting far exceeds 

 the rate of deposition. 



See also Plates XLVII. and CXXXI. 



