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



From photographs by R. W. SKELTON (S. 63 and 64, h" x 4" plates), Jan. 1 904 ; 

 taken looking S. from Harbour Heights. (Map B.) 



Iii the far distance appears White Island on the left, then Black Island, and 

 Mount Discovery on the right. 



To the left of the ship a narrow white streak, the tide-crack, outlines the 

 coast ; and between it and the ship appears the meteorological screen as a 

 double dot. 



The summer pools of open water are visible, where shallows run out from Cape 

 Armitage on the left and Hut Point on the right ; it was with the hope of extending 

 this water-hole at Hut Point into a canal to liberate the ship, that efforts were 

 made by exploding guncotton beneath the ice. The picture was taken at the 

 moment of exploding one of these charges, at the end of the water-hole on the 

 right, where the column of ice and water is seen rising into the air. 



Compare Plates LXXV. and LXXVI. 







