Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . of flat ice, steep-rounded cliffs, hav-ing the appearance of ice-covered land. We could not stop to in-vestigate. The plan proved impracticable, for we found that Barrier Inletliacl disappeared. Many miles of the Barrier edge had calved away,and instead of the narrow bight there was a wide bay joining upwith Borchgrevinks Inlet, and forming a depression that we calledthe Bay of Whales. We accordingly made an attempt to reach KingEdward VII Land, but here again we were unsuccessful. The waywas barred by heavy consolidated pa
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . of flat ice, steep-rounded cliffs, hav-ing the appearance of ice-covered land. We could not stop to in-vestigate. The plan proved impracticable, for we found that Barrier Inletliacl disappeared. Many miles of the Barrier edge had calved away,and instead of the narrow bight there was a wide bay joining upwith Borchgrevinks Inlet, and forming a depression that we calledthe Bay of Whales. We accordingly made an attempt to reach KingEdward VII Land, but here again we were unsuccessful. The waywas barred by heavy consolidated pack, into which bergs were frozen,and this ice stretched for to the north. The season was advancing,the Nimrod was leaking, as a result of severe gales on the journeysouth, and I decided that we had better proceed direct to McMurdoSound and establish the winter quarters there. The Nimrod en-tered the sound on January 29, and was brought up by fast ice 20miles from Hut Point, the spot at which the Discooery expedition Simithsonian Report, 1909.—Shackleton. Plate 1,. KooNYA Towing Nimrod.
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