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PLATE CXXVIIL THE BALLENY ISLANDS. 



FIG. 1 (Map A). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 142, 5" x 4" plate), 

 Mar. 2, 1904; showing part of Sturge Island from the N.-E. 



FIG. 2 (Map A). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 123, 5" x 4" plate), 

 Mar. 2, 1904 ; showing part of Sturge Island from the N. 



FIG. 3 (Map A). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 126, 5" x 4" plate), 

 Mar. 2, 1904 ; showing Buckle Island from the S. 



The group consists of five islands which lie about the latitude of the Antarctic 

 Circle to the northward of Cape North. Buckle Island is said to bear an active 

 volcano at its northern end, which was invisible to us, as we passed in unfavourable 

 weather. Sturge Island, on the other hand, was more plainly viewed, and gave the 

 accompanying photograph of the glacier tongues, which closely resemble those of 

 Coulman Island. 



See Ferrar, Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. i., p. 3. See also, Bernacchi, To the South 

 Polar Regions, pp. 46, 49, 54, where two sketches are given. Also, for other 

 photographs of these islands, Captain Scott's Voyage of the 'Discovery,' vol. ii., p. 

 390 ; and for the resolution of the two groups named respectively Balleny and 

 Russell, into one group of five islands, see Scott, op. cit., vol. ii., p. 387 et seq. 



