I9II] ROBERTSON BAY 89 
again from the S.S.E. The scenery here was even wilder, 
the Admiralty Range towering over our heads and so 
steep that, except in the valleys, no snow or ice was able 
to lodge, and bare rock showed everywhere. 
Large glaciers filled all the valleys, but the gradient 
was so steep that they were heavily crevassed from top 
to bottom. 
By 5 o'clock we were off the Dugdale Glacier, which runs 
out in three long tongues, in places only 10 feet high. 
It appeared to have altered considerably since 
Borchgrevink's time, as he charts only one long tongue. 
It was not a good place for wintering, the surface being 
crevassed and the sides too steep to be climbed ; the ice 
tongue would have been a good place to lie alongside and 
land stores, but as some of this broke away and drifted 
out to sea a week later, it was as well we did not try. 
After having a look at Duke of York Island we 
steamed up to the head of the bay, but with no better 
success. So about midnight we turned and made for 
Ridley Beach, a triangular beach on the west side of 
Cape Adare, the place where the Southern Cross Party 
wintered in 1900. 
I was very much against wintering here, as until 
the ice forms in Robertson Bay one is quite cut off from 
any sledging operations on the mainland, for the cliffs 
of the peninsula descend sheer into the sea. 
Pennell, however, had only just enough coal as it was 
to get back to New Zealand, so at 3 a.m. on the i8th we 
anchored off the south shore of the beach and commenced 
landing stores. A cold, wet job it was. A lot of loose 
