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situated about 67° S. and 158° E. ; the westernmost point 

 is Knox's Highland in latitude 66° 3c/ S. and longitude 

 105° 30' E. "Termination Land," entered on most maps 

 in longitude 95° E., and described by Wilkes himself as an 

 indistinct "appearance" of land, seems, according to the 

 observations of the Challenger, to have no real existence. 

 Assuming the coast of Wilkes Land to be continuous, 

 then it would, exclusive of bays and gulfs, have an extent 

 of some 1,750 miles — a long tract. The coast attains its 

 northernmost point at Cape Carr, part of the Clarie coast, 

 situated in round numbers in latitude 65° S. and longitude 

 1 32° E. The deepest inlet is "Disappointment Bay," 

 where Wilkes advanced to longitude 147° 30' E. and 

 latitude 67° 5' S., without sighting the southern ex- 

 tremity of the bay. 



The land sightings from Ringgold's Knoll to the 

 western extremity of Dumont d'Urville's Adelie Land 

 extend, in about latitude 67° S., in a due east and west 

 direction from 1 58° E. to 137 E. ; then the coast projects 

 in a north-west direction as far as Cape Carr, whence it 

 curves almost due south to possibly 65° 45' S. ; next it 

 again pursues a westerly direction to about 66° S., as 

 far the extremity of Knox's Highland. Budd's Highland 

 alone seems, according to Wilkes' account, to project to 

 about latitude 65° S. 



Of the general nature of the country we know exceed- 

 ingly little ; since Balleny's visit in 1839, and those of 

 Wilkes and Dumont d'Urville in 1840, not a single ship 

 has approached these regions to confirm and extend the 

 first discoveries. All the knowledge we possess of these 

 regions is based on descriptions of views obtained from 

 greater or less distances, and frequently interrupted by 

 fogs and snowstorms. 



Little is known of the eastern extremity of Wilkes 

 Land of the elevations named by Wilkes, Ringgold's 

 Knoll, Eld's Peak, and Reynold's Peak. On the 16th 



