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PLATE CXIV. TRIBUTARY GLACIERS. 



FIG. 1 (Map B). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 304, ^-plate), Dec. 9, 

 1903 ; on the right bank of Ferrar Glacier, showing the descent to its 

 northern arm, and Obelisk Mountain. 



FIG. 2 (Map B). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 312, ^-plate), Dec. 12, 

 1903 ; on the left bank of Ferrar Glacier. 



"On the North Fork of Ferrar Glacier three small glaciers drain from one 

 firnfield, and end about one thousand feet above the ice of the main valley. Two 

 are known as Cliff-glaciers, since the ice breaks off at the edge of a cliff and falls in 

 avalanches, to be lost in the main ice-flow beneath. The third has lately been a cliff- 

 glacier, but its present loss by ablation exceeds the supply, and it now ends some 

 distance from the edge of the cliff, and therefore is of Alpine type." 



Fig. 2 shows the eastern foot of New Harbour Height, with a Hanging- 

 glacier on the north side of the East Fork of Ferrar Glacier. 



Ferrar, Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. i., pp. 71, 72; Scott, Voyage of the 'Discovery,' 

 voL ii., pp. 288, 293. 



