EXPLORATION OF ANTARCTIC LANDS. 475 
not to be found in Palmer land, they must come from a southern con- 
tinent, and have been deposited here as the lateral moraine of a vast 
glacier which must have filled up the whole of Hughes gulf; and in 
any case there is evidence of a furmer great extension of glaciers—that is 
to say, of a glacial period. Lecointe made an astronomical observation.* 
At 4 p.m. we were under way again, steering 8. by E. towards the 
island where we had first landed. The sky was somewhat overcast, 
at first by flame-shaped cirrus, then by alto-cumulus, the cirrus becom- 
ing transformed into cirro-stratus, and, finally, before sunset a low haze 
formed on the sea, grew thicker for a while, but shortly after sunset 
it cleared once more, and we saw the islands and mountains in the 
south quite distinctly. 
Wednesday, January 26, was entirely spent between Two Hummocks 
island, the island of our first landing, and two groups of islets situated 
FIG. 5.—THE MOUNT NEAR FIFTH LANDING. 
further north. In the afternoon Lecointe, Danco and Racovitza landed 
on the island of our first landing in order to make magnetic and 
astronomical observations, while Cook, Amundsen and I landed on 
Two Hummocks island (VI on map, Fig. 2). Taken as a whole, this 
island presents a very characteristic form; it is narrow and entirely 
covered with a thick mantle of snow, which gives it a convex appear- 
ance. Two pyramidal mountains project like nunataks, contrasting 
with the general smooth outline; these two hummocks are ranged in 
the direction of the length of the island. We landed on the north coast 
in the hope of being able to climb one of the mountains, and found that 
the shore was formed by a cliff of ice with only a few promontories of 
bare rock. I did not see the ice actually immersed in the water at any 
point; a very narrow strip of bare rock always separated it from the 
sea. Where we landed the shore was bordered by roches moutonnées, 
* Lat. 68° 57’ 4" S., long. 61° 47’ 34” W. 
