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deep elliptical curve, ends in Cape Gordon, latitude 63° 

 50' S., longitude 57° 20' W. ; it is fifteen miles across and 

 extends the same distance inland. From Cape Gage to 

 Cape Corry, at no great distance, the coast continues in 

 a northerly direction, then E. to E.N.E. as far as opposite 

 Dundee Island, and at length, broken by several small 

 bays, northwards until Mount Bransfield is again reached. 

 The wide bay which is thus framed in by Louis- Philippe 

 Land on the south and west, and by Joinville Island and 

 Dundee Island on the north and north-east, received the 

 name of Erebus and Terror Bay from Ross. 



The major axis of Louis-Philippe Land may be taken 

 to run either from north to south, or from N.N.E. 

 to S.S.W., and to have a length of about 100 to 115 

 miles ; so long as the course of the western coast remains 

 unexplored, it is impossible to estimate the extent of the 

 island from east to west. 



In contrast with the low and flat north-western portion 

 of Joinville Island, the north coast of Louis-Philippe Land 

 has elevations of some importance. Mount Bransfield, 

 already frequently cited as the most northern point, is a 

 conical mountain of 2,000 feet in round numbers. The 

 land extends uniformly high to the south and west to 

 the point where the coast takes a southern direction, and 

 Mount Jacquinot, also conical in form, rises to a height 

 of 2,000 feet and upwards. The character of the land 

 now changes in so far as a mountain chain, extending 

 south-west, takes the place of the isolated summits pre- 

 viously described, ending with the greatest height on 

 the north coast, Mount d'Urville, 3,000 feet. The land, 

 indistinctly seen, extends farther west to the entrance 

 of the Orleans Channel. With the exception of steep 

 mountain tops and isolated capes projecting into the sea, 

 the whole northern coast of Louis- Philippe Land is 

 completely glaciated, and in nearly every direction the 

 inland ice reaches the sea, standing above the surface in 



