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an ice barrier, or rather in the seaward edge of the 
ice-sheet descending from Victoria Land. This was 
a place admirably suited for magnetic observations, 
and I named it Lady Newnes Bay. 
POSSESSION ISLAND WITH PEAK ARCHER. 
Here, on the ice, Mr. Bernacchi and Lieut. 
Colbeck took some of the most important observa- 
tions, without which we would have been unable, 
even with our later observations, to have located the 
present position of the South Magnetic Pole. The 
dip taken here was 87:18. With sledges we drove 
up to the end of a barrier-bound, wedge-shaped bay. 
At the end of this we found very many seals of the 
Weddell, On leaving this locality on the 4th 
February we had considerable difficulty through 
approaching driff-ice. On the 5th we steamed 
southwards, and saw a good deal of pack-ice towards 
the west, so the coastline here for some distance could 
not be distinctly mapped. On the 6th we were in 
