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experience, new for the Antarctic regions, which, when once full}^ 

 described, might be of service to future explorers in distress during 

 the survey of the desolate and stormy southern lands. 



To me it was of special interest to get intimate around our wintering- 

 place with a nature so different from the now well-surveyed region 

 round the station on Snow Hill. Instead of its unfolded table-land 

 surrounded by a shallow sea, we have here a deep sound with fjord- 

 like bays swarming with a rich fauna, and a land with numerous edged 

 nunataks rising through the inland ice — a folded region with such a 

 variet}^ of sedimentary and eruptive rocks that the lind of a rich 

 Mesozoic flora is only to be regarded as a first hint of the possibilities 

 of a future more extensive exploration. In the lonely winter months 

 I sometimes amused myself with sketching in detail a survey of the 

 geology and biology of this region- -a plan that, I hope, will not wait 

 lono- for its realization. 



