180 THE ANTARCTIC. 



No information whatever exists as to the whole tract 

 between the north coast of Louis-Philippe Land and 

 Mount Haddington, towering above every other object 

 in the south. Towards the east, opposite Dundee Island, 

 it appears rather flat, while there is a continuous rise 

 towards the south. The southern portion of the jsland 

 is entirely occupied by Mount Haddington, estimated by 

 Ross to be 7,000 to 7,050 feet high, and the loftiest 

 known elevation in this part of the Antarctic regions. It 

 rises towards the interior in three terraces, all beginning 

 with steep descents, and is on the whole deeply glaciated. 

 The dark rocks certainly often appear along the lines 

 of fracture marking the terraces, and in other places 

 " nunataks " rise above the ice ; the steep descent of the 

 foot of the mountain is almost entirely free from ice and 

 snow. At a few points, especially to the north of Cape 

 Gage, which commands the western entrance to Admiralty 

 Bay, vast glaciers descend along the deeper valley de- 

 pressions, extending a considerable distance out to sea. 

 In the same manner a glacier, several nautical miles in 

 breadth, comes down from the south side of the mountain, 

 filling up the inner part of Admiralty Bay and thus 

 attaching the outlying island (Snow Land) to the main- 

 land. Another great glacier lies at the southern foot of 

 the mountain between Capes Foster and Lockyer. 



Snow Land, the east coast of Admiralty Bay, on the 

 other hand is completely glaciated, and nowhere shows a 

 spot free from ice or snow. It is of pretty considerable 

 size ; its major axis extends nineteen to twenty miles from 

 south-west to north-east, and in the south it rises to 

 about 1,950 feet. Then it descends gradually to the 

 narrow sound separating it from Seymour Island, which 

 is low and narrow and about fourteen miles long. The 

 ice covering of Snow Land everywhere outlines the 

 coast with an ice wall keeping within such modest 

 proportions as forty-eight feet in the higher parts and 



