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Cape Roberts and the small tongue of ice where we had 
camped during the blizzard. But a most amazing 
discovery was that the whole inner part of the harbour 
was occupied by a great glacier tongue some five miles 
long and a mile wide. This projected out to sea from 
the Mackay icefalls and ended in three splay * fingers.' 
It was a hundred feet above the sea ice and crevassed 
beyond description for the greater part of its length. 
Across the harbour was a low plateau about 1 000 
feet above the sea, formed of black dolerite. Small 
glaciers hung over the steep cliffs, one being the ' Spillover ' 
mentioned previously. Then looking west came the 
crevasses of the Mackay icefalls, as impassable and 
impossible as Dr. Wilson had described them. But in 
the south-west corner was the smaller New Glacier, and 
I felt sure we could get up that way somehow. 
About twelve miles up the glacier was a huge nunatak 
with a cap of black dolerite rising into three peaks. This 
cap reminded me of a Chinese junk, but Debenham objected 
to Junk Mountain and suggested Gondola Mt. It was 
sad to find out later that Professor David on his journey 
to the Magnetic Pole had seen and fixed this peak and 
called it Mount Suess ! 
As will be seen, we investigated this most interesting 
rock island in the upper Mackay Glacier fairly thoroughly 
On the 5th5 about 4 p.m., we started off with a week's 
provisions to map the northern coast of the harbour. 
We had only one sledge and got along in fine style — the 
first easy sledging we had met — and as it turned out 
practically the last ! We camped at 6.30 at the end of 
