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PLATE C VI MOVEMENT CHASM ON THE GREAT ICE BARRIER. 



FIG. 1 (Map A). From a photograph by E. H. SHACKLETON (Sh. 180, -plate), 

 Dec. 15, 1902 ; looking N. along the chasm. 



FIG. 2 (Map A). From a photograph by E. H. SHACKLETON (Sh. 180, ^-plate), 

 Dec. 15, 1902 ; looking S. along the chasm. 



The great scar, which these two figures represent, is one of many which result 

 from the meeting of two moving sheets of ice, the one coming down from the Inland 

 Ice-cap by way of Barne Inlet, the other, the main Ice Barrier, coming from the 

 south. 



This particular scar or chasm was about three-quarters of a mile across, and 

 from the edge upon which we stood, had a depth of 80 or 100 feet, with a bottom 

 filled by broken ice and snow-drifts. 



Such rents are probably far more extensive and abundant at the openings now 

 named Skelton, Mulock, Barne, and Shackleton Inlets, than at any intervening 

 point along the coast. 



See Scott, Voyage of the 'Discovery,' vol. ii., pp. 82 and 419. 



