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coastal limits of the Victoria Quadrant, and part of the 

 Enderby Quadrant; it is from these that the easterly drift 

 bears the detached ice towards our shores. 



Is there an equal, though at present less known, supply 

 of material in those directions ? About midway in the 

 former, Bellamy, in 1839, discovered 'Sabrina Land,' a lofty 

 mountain range covered with snow, Long. 122° E., and the 

 Bellamy islands in Long. 165° E. Between these points 

 Dumont d'Urville in 1810, January 20 (not three weeks 

 out from Hobart) discovered Terra Adelie, Long. 140° E., 

 "lofty land nearly hidden by icebergs." 



January 21st, "Surrounded by icebergs, the Corvettes dwarfed 

 by the surrounding masses, seemed to be in the narrow streets of 

 a city of giants. . . sun shining in all its brightness." 



January 27th to 30th further west he "discovered Cote Clarie, 

 Long. 128° E., sailed along a vertical wall of ice, 100 to 150 feet 

 high, for twelve hours, its aspects truly prodigious, could detect 

 no land only an Ice Barrier, precipitous towards the sea. Reached 

 the western extremity of this ice barrier trending S.W." 



January 31st, " Ice barrier no longer in sight, but many ice 

 islands. Shortly afterwards sighted barrier again to west and 

 north-west, apparently a continuance of the former one and form- 

 ing a great gulf around us, Lat. 65° 20' S., Long. 128° 21' E. 

 Bore up for Hobart." 



From the time of Dumont D'Urville (1840) we have 

 gained little further information respecting these quadrants; 

 they were visited by the ' Challenger ' in 1874, and by the 

 German Exploring Ship ' Valdivia ' in 1898, neither of which 

 much more than skirted the Antarctic Circle, but confirmed 

 the existence of the Ice Barrier as far west as Long. 78°22'E. 

 From indications based on the isotherm of 32°, it has been 

 supposed that d'Urville's Terre Adelie and Cote Clarie are 

 only large islands, and that any continental land is far to 

 the south ; in fact that there is a space of 250 to 300 miles 



