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PLATE CXLI. KING EDWARD VII.'S LAND. 

 From a sketch made on board ship; Jan. 31, 1902. (Map A.) 



Captain Scott writes as follows concerning the discovery of this land : 

 " We could now see the coast-line clearly for many miles. On the left was 

 the low barrier formation . . . which I now note as ' ten to twelve feet high and 

 sloping up for a short distance, when it runs horizontally for ten or eleven miles to 

 the base of a range of well-defined hills.' To the right and left of two groups of 

 hills which lay opposite to us, a thin stratus cloud partially hid the outline of 

 continuously high snow-covered ridges, and the same thin veil hung in the broad 

 valley between the groups ; but the sharp peaks of the groups were clearly 

 outlined against the sky, and with a sextant and the distance given by four- 

 point bearing, we were able to calculate the altitude as between 2000 and 3000 

 feet. . . . Behind the broader valley which separated the hill groups, the outline of 

 farther ranges was strongly indicated, and convinced us that the high land extended 

 far back beyond the coastal hills, and that our new-found land was not a group of 

 islets, but a country of considerable altitude and extent." Scott, Voyage of the 

 'Discovery,' 1 vol. i., pp. 190, 191. 



PLATE CXLII.- WHITE ISLAND, WITH MOUNT EREBUS AND 

 MOUNT TERROE, FROM THE S. 



From a sketch made on the Southern Sledge Journey ; Jan. 31, 1903, 10 P.M. 

 (Map B.) 



This sketch takes in the whole western aspect of White Island, and shows 

 how its snow-slopes gradually merge to the S. with the surface of the Barrier. 

 It forms a very disturbing element in the progress of the Barrier Ice-sheet north- 

 ward, and at both the northern and southern extremities is the cause of extensive 

 waves or pressure-ridges full of crevasses, which make it necessary in travelling 

 with sledges to give the island a wide berth. 



The general direction of the movement of the Barrier Ice-sheet is a little to the 

 east of north, and the rate at which it is moving is approximately 540 yards in 

 twelve months. 



See Scott, Voyage of the 'Discovery,' vol. ii., p. 416 et seq. 



