LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



Section showing former thickness of West Branch of Great Ice 

 Barrier when it filled McMurdo Sound at maximum of Recent 



Glaciation 287 



Sections showing relative heights of Mountains and of the Great 



Snow Plateaux 306 



Fungus — Peat and Ice Deposits 320 



Eruption of June 14, 1908 328 



Eruption of November 27, 1908 328 



Great Steam Eruption, September 8, 1908 329 



Temperatures of Ice of Blue Lake 363 



Diagram of Prismatic Arch, March 13 371 



Lunar Halo, Bright Patches and Beam, June 12 374 



Inverted Rings Round the Sun, February 7, 1909 375 



Iridescent Clouds, August 22 377 



Earth Shadows, April 12 , 378 



Curved Line joining Erebus Summit and its Shadow on the Western 



Mountains, April 12 378 



Earth Shadows, October 15 , 379 



Earth Shadows, September 17 380 



Part of Curtain Display, April 28 ^ . . . 387 



Curtain Band Circling Erebus, May 26 388 



Arch and Curtain, June 19 389 



Great Beam of Light, May 23, 1908 390 



Aurora on August 31 391 



Diagram showing the Principal Parts of the Tide-gauge 393 



Tracing of Tide Record from Third Quarter to New Moon (New 



ON 28th) 394 



Tracing of Tide Record from July 20 to 27, 1908 395 



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