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PLATE LXXVI. THE 'DISCOVERY'S' WINTER-QUARTERS 



FIG. 1. From a photograph by E. W. SKELTON (Sk. 142, ^-plate) ; showing the 

 snow-drifts which accumulated round the stern of the ship in her winter- 

 quarters. 



FIG. 2. From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 102, ^-plate) ; showing the 

 general disposition of the ship and the huts in winter-quarters. The 

 picture is taken looking almost S. from Hut Point. 



In the foreground of Fig. 2 are two small asbestos huts, piled up with snow, 

 to keep the instruments for magnetic work within at a reasonably uniform 

 temperature. 



Half covering the ship is the large wooden living hut ; and beyond the ship 

 "the Gap," between the ridge of Crater Hill and Observation Hill, which rises to 

 the right. 



Several terraces of old moraine are visible on the left, below Crater Hill, 

 indications of the greater extent of the ice at some previous period. 



In Fig. 1 the noticeable feature in the snow-drifts round the ship is the clean- 

 cut moat or trough between the wall of the drift and the weather-side of the ship. 

 This trough is kept free of snow by the fury of the wind. 



