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PLATE L. THE WESTERN END OF THE GREAT ICE 



BARRIER FACE. 



FIG. 1 (Map B). From a photograph taken by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 190, ^-plate), 

 Oct. 18, 1902; looking southward along the line of ice disturbance. 



FIG. 2 (Map B). From a photograph taken by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 189, J-plate), 

 Oct. 18, 1902 ; looking eastward from the sea-ice off Cape Crozier. 



Both pictures are taken from the corner of Cape Crozier; but while Fig. 1 

 shows the basalt cliffs of Ross Island on the right and the ice-hummocks of the 

 Barrier on the left, Fig. 2 shows the transition from the area of pressure hummocks 

 on the right, to a comparatively stable and uniform ice-sheet on the left. The 

 top of this ice-sheet is about forty feet above the level of the frozen sea, which forms 

 the foreground of the picture. 



The excessively dirty condition of the ice was due to the fact that Emperor 

 Penguins had frequented the bay in hundreds throughout the winter months ; and 

 though none appear in the picture, there were still large numbers there in October, 

 with their young, taking shelter under the cliffs inshore (see Plates LII. LV1II.). 

 The ice-cliff of Fig. 2 is the actual first mile at the W. end of the 500 miles of ice- 

 cliff known as Ross s " Great Ice Barrier." 



See Ross, Voyage to the Antarctic Regions, vol. i., p. 218 ; also, Scott, Voyage 

 of the 'Discovery,' vol. i., p. 170. 



