ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



This is in latitude 6i° S. and the bay is two miles wide 

 and faces to the southeast. 



Icebergs 



On the evening of the eighth of December, 1910, 

 in latitude 63° 30' we saw our first icebergs in the 

 shape of two silvery pyramids glistening in the setting 

 sun. This was about seventy miles north of where we 

 met the pack ice. At two o'clock on the next day there 

 were twenty-seven bergs visible, and this number rather 

 decreased as we moved south. The bergs expose more 

 surface both to currents and winds than does the pack 

 ice, which is the reason why they outstrip the pack ice 

 in their march to the north. Occasionally a berg 

 reaches Australian waters, and one was seen right in 

 the Australian Bight by Captain Grant Smith (in 1926, 

 I believe). In Arctic seas there are practically no icy 

 coasts as in Antarctica, and the bergs are the result 

 generally of the outflow of relatively small glaciers. 



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