94 Mr Ferrar, The old Moraines of South Victoria Land. 



The old Moraines of South Victoria Land. By H. T. Ferrar, 

 M.A., Sidney Sussex College. (Communicated by Mr A. E. 

 Shipley.) 



[Bead 13 March 1905.] 



The paper first dealt with the Topography of South Victoria 

 Land, a land consisting of a range of mountains some 800 miles 

 long in a North and South direction, with a steep Eastward face 

 on an average 10,000 feet high, facing the sea and buttressing a 

 vast interior ice-field. Details were given of the stranded moraines 

 on Cape Adare, on the Possession Islands and on Franklin Island 

 as well as those high on the slopes of Mount Erebus and Terror. 

 The latter could only have been landed there by the Ross Ice- 

 sheet being thicker than it is at present. Reversed glaciers, 

 glaciers not reaching the sea and beheaded glaciers were men- 

 tioned ; all pointing to the same conclusion, a retreat of the ice. 



This retreat is now going on, so that increase of cold could not 

 produce a greater glaciation. If this former greater extension was 

 due to a warmer climate, why have the New Zealand glaciers 

 decreased of late, 'and what is the connection of the 'Ice-age' of 

 Europe with the ' Great Glacier Epoch ' of New Zealand and 

 Patagonia ? 



