274 SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE 
upon a line of heavy pack-ice, making a landing im- 
possible. A notable promontory of the new coastline 
opposite the position of the ships was named Cape Adare 
after Viscount Adare, M.P., who had been one of the 
warm supporters of the expedition. It stood up in high 
dark cliffs of apparently volcanic rock in strong con- 
trast to the snow-covered heights behind and the white 
ice-pack in front. Two great ranges of mountains were 
now plainly to be seen, for the evening was perfectly 
clear and the snowy summits stood out sharply against 
the sky, their heights ranging from 7000 to 10,000 feet 
above sea level. Here and there black rocks broke 
through the covering of snow, here and there from the 
valleys great glaciers projected for several miles into 
the sea and terminated in perpendicular cliffs of solid 
ice. 
The range of mountains running to the northwest 
from behind Cape Adare Ross called the Admiralty Range 
and on each peak he enthroned the name of one of the 
Lords of the Admiralty under whose orders he was 
serving. This happy Board of Admiralty which looks 
out forever over Ross Sea consisted as the map will 
always remind us, of Earl Minto, First Lord, Admiral 
Sir Charles Adam and Admiral Sir William Parker, the 
two senior Naval Lords, Admiral Sir Edward Trou- 
faridge, Captain Sir Samuel Pechell and Lord Dalmeny, 
the Junior Lords. P'ew indeed would now remember these 
names had they not been so commemorated. The ships 
were full of jubilation that for the first time since Bel- 
lingshausen’s voyage the most southerly known land of 
the globe was once more a British discovery. 
The magnetic observations indicated that the pole for 
which the expedition was bound lay about 500 miles to 
