THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC 



In regard to the important theoretical question as to 

 whether the west coast of Victoria Land is of an Atlantic 

 or of a Pacific type, the following considerations present 

 themselves. 



Feat Inciies 



Layers of ice sepa- 

 rated from one another ' 

 by layers of bubbles. f 



Ice divided into eleven «» 

 laminaa by sheets of 

 bubbles. 



Ice strongly fibrous 

 and prismatic with nu- 

 merous vertical bubble 

 holes. The bottom ice 

 for 6 in. in depth is 

 yellow. 



3- \r ^o.;__ 



Peaty fungus and ice 

 mixed. 



Alternating laminae of 

 fungus-peat and ice pass- 

 ing downwards into 4 in. 

 of gritty peat. 



Pebbles of kenyte 

 lava and fungus ce- 

 mented by ice. 



0 > 10 



:0 ' 10 



,0-9 



4 



/O 3 



3 «0 o o o « t • 



As pointed out by H. T. Ferrar, the massive Beacon 

 sandstone formation terminates in steep, and in places 

 precipitous, slopes along the whole line of coast from 

 beyond Cape North southerly to Mount Discovery. From 

 there to where Mr. Shacldeton and his Southern Party, 



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