PANORAMIC SKETCHES 



Drawn by E. A. Wilson, M.B. 



PLATE CXXIX. THE COAST-LINE OF SOUTH VICTORIA LAND 

 FROM CAPE ADARE TO CAPE M'CORMICK. 



From a sketch made on board ship, Jan. 10, 1902 ; representing the north-eastern 

 precipitous face of the promontory which ends in Cape Adare, and forms the 

 north-eastern boundary of Robertson Bay. (Map A.) 



To the right, the sketch ends with Cape Adare. In the centre, the rocky 

 promontory is so low that the peaks of Admiralty Range appear in succession 

 as one sails eastward, even close inshore. To the left, at Cape Downshire, the 

 cliffs become more lofty and more precipitous, while the coast-line turns to run 

 due S. On the extreme left of the sketch is Cape M'Cormick, off which the 

 Possession Islands may be seen. (See Plate XXI. for photographs of the 

 Possession Islands taken two years later.) 



There was too much pack-ice and too great an abundance of icebergs, large 

 and small, to allow, at this time, of a closer approach to the coast or to the Pos- 

 session Islands. The ice drifts to the N.-W., and the heavier and larger bergs 

 become stranded for a while upon a line of shoals which extend in a north- 

 westerly direction from Cape Adare. When sufficiently reduced in size by the 

 action of the waves, by melting and disintegration under water, and by the 

 action of the wind and weather, these bergs are once more floated off and continue 

 again to drift to the N. and W. 



PLATE CXXX. THE ADMIRALTY RANGE. 



From a sketch made on board ship in passing; Jan. 11, 1902, about 4 A.M. 

 (Map A.) 



On the right of the sketch, which is taken looking W., is a foreshortened 

 repetition of Plate CXXIX., to Cape Adare in the distance. Mount Sabine, 

 " rather less than ten thousand feet in height, and about thirty miles from the coast," 



