. Scottish geographical magazine. rom theWeddell Sea. This is entirely at variance with the observations takenon board the Scotia and at Scotia Bay, South Orkneys. If such hightemperatures exist in the Weddell Sea, how does Markham account forsuch low temperatures at the South Orkneys, where it was possible in 412 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. 1903 for a ship to be frozen in for eight months, and in 1904 for amuch longer period 1 According to Mr. Mossmans observations, whowas in charge of the Omond House Station for the ArgentineGovernment, a ship would have been frozen in for fully twelve m
. Scottish geographical magazine. rom theWeddell Sea. This is entirely at variance with the observations takenon board the Scotia and at Scotia Bay, South Orkneys. If such hightemperatures exist in the Weddell Sea, how does Markham account forsuch low temperatures at the South Orkneys, where it was possible in 412 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. 1903 for a ship to be frozen in for eight months, and in 1904 for amuch longer period 1 According to Mr. Mossmans observations, whowas in charge of the Omond House Station for the ArgentineGovernment, a ship would have been frozen in for fully twelve monthsduring 1904-5. Is it not remarkable that temperatures of —40° F. should have beenrecorded in the South Orkneys at the northern extremity of the WeddellSea, if at the same time warm winds were to travel from that same seaacross the Pole to Victoria Land ? One of the strongest pieces of evidencethat exists supporting the presence of a large mass of land existingto the south and west of the South Orkneys is the extremely low. Fig. 5.—Scotia beset in heavy ice in 74° 1 S. off Coats Land. The shearlegs show theposition of the baited trap in 161 fathoms. temperatures which are recorded with winds from that 1903 the Weddell Sea was very full of ice, and in the middle ofFebruary the Scotia was beset and frozen in 70° 25 S. 17° W. Lowtemperatures were experienced by the Scotia in the middle of Marchwhen in the vicinity of Morrell and Rosss Land. In 1904 the Scotiawas beset and frozen in for a week with temperatures below zero,and with great dryness of the atmosphere off Coats Land—strongevidence surely of cold extensive continental masses. Altogether, itseems evidence increases rather than decreases in favour of the continuityand continentality of Antarctic land masses. Professor von Drygalski,by the discovery of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Land, has added to the land massof the Antarctic regions; Captain Scott has added King Edward ; while the Scottish E
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