ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



tary crevasses, the ascent of these outlet glaciers would 

 be a comparatively easy task. 



The Ferrar Outlet Glacier 



We were landed by the *' Terra Nova" off Butter 

 Point on the twenty-seventh of January, 191 1. We 

 sledged westward over sea-ice for four and one-half 

 miles until we reached the center of the snout of the 

 Outlet Glacier. The latter was only three feet above 

 the sea-ice at this point. The peculiar tongue of the 

 Glacier along the Bowers Piedmont is shown in Figure 

 19 at K. 



The valley of the lower Ferrar Glacier is about four 

 miles wide and extends southwest for about thirty 

 miles. The northern face is a marvelous wall-like clifif. 

 two thousand to three thousand feet above the glacier, 

 as stated previously, as straight and smooth as if planed 

 by a giant carpenter. On the south side the wall is 

 breached by tributary glaciers coming in from the 

 Blue Glacier and the snow slopes of Mount Lister. 



The chief features of the lower portion of one of 

 these huge glaciers can best be realized by a description 

 of a traverse of the Ferrar Glacier across the snout. 



Center to South. — At its mouth the Ferrar Glacier 

 is bounded by bare clifYs with the normal angle of 

 about T,^°, which reach a height of three or four thou- 

 sand feet. The glacier end is from three to six feet 

 above sea level and is obviously not contributing much 

 in the way of icebergs. Our camp was on the sea-ice 

 at the junction. From the camp I made a rapid trav- 

 erse to the southern slopes which further proved that 



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