4 THE ANTARCTIC. 



the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on the other, this portion 

 partakes of the nature of straits. The present author 

 therefore proposes the name of Drake's Straits, in honour 

 of the great English hero and navigator who was the 

 first to investigate these waters. Finally, to the west, 

 the extreme south-eastern portion of the Pacific Ocean 

 washes the shores of Graham's and Alexander Lands, 

 whose most distant accurately-seen point, Peter I. Island, 

 is situated in latitude 6o° S. and longitude 91° W. ; 

 approximately therefore on the meridian of St. Louis, or 

 New Orleans, in the United States of North America. 



A second, and according- to present knowledge far 

 less extensive, tract of country lies to the south of the 

 Indian Ocean ; these are the coasts known as Enderby 

 Land and Kemp Land, occupying on the Antarctic circle 

 about the space lying between 46 and 6o° of E. 

 longitude. In regard of the meridians it therefore cor- 

 responds in extent to Persia, though it must be borne 

 in mind that in these high latitudes the distance between 

 two meridians is scarcely the half of the same meridians 

 in the mean latitude of Persia. Towards the west of 

 the two coasts named above, it is conjectured that more 

 land exists, but these doubtful appearances of land will 

 be discussed completely further on. 



Last of all there remains a third group of Antarctic 

 lands, the largest of all, to the south of the Australian 

 continent. Here land has been more or less distinctly 

 seen over a region extending from 105° E. longitude to 

 1 55° W. longitude, therefore across upwards of ioo°. 

 The northernmost point of this tract is Cape Carr in 

 about 65° S. latitude and 132 E. longitude, approximately 

 on the meridian of the Japanese island of Kiusiu, or the 

 western part of New Guinea. To the west of 165 E. 

 longitude the land known as Wilkes Land lies close along 

 the line of the Antarctic circle, to the east it apparently 

 sweeps in two stretches towards the south, and bears 



