ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



Bellingshausen Sea low. On the Pacific side strong 

 northeast winds prevail south of latitude 62° S., while 

 farther to the west the "Belgica" seemed to find strong 

 monsoonal winds, i.e. easterly in summer and westerly 

 in winter. On the east side near Snow Hill, etc., the 

 prevailing wind is southwest, while at the South 

 Orkneys it is west-southwest. The observations during 

 the drift of the ''Endurance" and ''Deutschland" in the 

 Weddell Sea show that strong easterly and northeast- 

 erly winds are met with, which prevail as far south 

 as 78° S. in summer and early autumn. The west 

 side of the Weddell Sea seems to exhibit southwest 

 winds as if there were a cyclonic circulation in this 



area.^ 



Snowfall 



No rain fell during our stay in the Antarctic, either 

 at Cape Evans or at Cape Adare, but a rainbow was 

 seen to the north-northeast of Cape Evans on February 

 14th, 191 1. No satisfactory method has yet been 

 found of measuring the amount of snowfall, as it is 

 usually accompanied by high wind. I have mentioned 

 elsewhere that Taylor Valley seems to receive prac- 

 tically no snowfall, and the change in environment as 

 we proceed from this region to the vast ice carapace ex- 

 tending into the sea all along the coast opposite 

 Australia would lead us to suppose that the snowfall 

 increases considerably to the north. The record of 

 the snowfall on the Barrier (as deduced from a buried 



-See the Geographical Journal (London), December, 1916. 



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