GONDOLA RIDGE 
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This was the most interesting locality I saw in Ant- 
arctica. On nearer approach the likeness to a gondola 
disappeared, as the great granite buttress supporting the 
dolerite capping came into view. I must apologise for 
comparing this fine mountain to a decayed molar tooth, 
with three black cusps and a rounded hollow between, 
but there was a great similarity in shape. To the north 
of the nunatak was a low ridge about two miles long, 
composed of granite and separated from the mount by a 
col or pass which rose but little above the glacier level. 
All along the eastern slopes were piles of moraine 
material. Great cones of debris, built up of granite, 
dolerite and a yellow rock (which we were glad to recognise 
as Beacon Sandstone), stood out like watch-towers on 
the morainic rampart. 
Towards one of these, like a railway embankment of 
yellow sand, we directed our way. We carried our gear 
to the top, smoothed off the site somewhat, and then 
pitched our camp on mesozoic sandstones — probably the 
first time this has been done in Victoria Land ! Just 
below was a little lake dammed by the embankment, and 
when I cut through three inches of ice near a big black 
boulder, a bountiful supply of water welled up in the 
hole. On the bank was some dark shale, by far the most 
promising rock for fossils that we had yet seen. Before 
the day was over Debenham had found some, and we 
examined all the shale carefully and obtained many 
specimens. They were vesicular horny plates shaped 
like the tiles capping a roof ridge. Some were about 
two inches long and had a well-marked keel. Others 
