VICTORIA LAND 
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had promoted the expedition, and so the names of 
the members of the various committees of advice stand 
in line with those of the contemporary Lords of the 
Admiralty. 
As the ships beat to windward south along the 
coast they were still attended by flocks of penguins play- 
ing round them like porpoises. Constant soundings were 
taken and the depth was found to range between 60 and 
92 fathoms at a distance of between two and four miles 
from the shore. The coast was keenly scanned for any 
harbour in which it would be possible to secure the 
ships and allow of observations on shore on the next 
international term-day which was now approaching; but 
every valley of the land appeared to end in a bay so full 
of glacier ice as to afford no shelter. The wind con- 
tinued contrary and it was hard work to keep the 
position already gained, while the brief navigable season 
was slipping past with little prospect of getting farther 
south despite the open sea. On the 17th a new point of 
land appeared which Ross, true to the sailor’s tradition, 
called Cape Anne after his fiancee whose birthday it 
happened to be, and as the land proved to be an island, 
it was named Coulman Island after the lady’s father, 
while the north end was called Cape Wadworth in mem- 
ory of her uncle’s house Wadworth Hall, “ a spot of 
many happy associations.” 
After this auspicious event the weather improved, a 
southwesterly wind enabled a course to be made to the 
south-southeast, away from the land but into an abso- 
lutely unexplored and ice-free sea. Tacking back to- 
ward land new mountains appeared to the southward 
and the founders and secretaries of the British Associa- 
tion were commemorated in their names. 
