. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLANDS: VISOKOI I. 163 side, the existence of an active crater near the summit could not be estabHshed. Later, however, when the island was again sighted at some miles distance on our passage from Candlemas to Leskov, clouds of steam and vapour were seen rising from it in a. Fig. 7. Visokoi Island: sketches by J. Irving. a. From the SW: Saddle Bluff on the left open of Wordie Point, the latter i mile distant. h. The pinnacle rock on the NW side: seen from the SW and bearing 056°, 1-3 miles distant. c.
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLANDS: VISOKOI I. 163 side, the existence of an active crater near the summit could not be estabHshed. Later, however, when the island was again sighted at some miles distance on our passage from Candlemas to Leskov, clouds of steam and vapour were seen rising from it in a. Fig. 7. Visokoi Island: sketches by J. Irving. a. From the SW: Saddle Bluff on the left open of Wordie Point, the latter i mile distant. h. The pinnacle rock on the NW side: seen from the SW and bearing 056°, 1-3 miles distant. c. From the NE: Finger Point on the right, bearing 277°, distant 2 miles. d. From the SB: Saddle Bluff on the right, bearing 310^, distant about 2 miles. e. Wordie Point from the ESE, bearing 290'. /. Penguin Point in line with Saddle Bluff, seen from the SE: Penguin Point bearing 320°, distant 3 cables. g. Low Point from the E: bearing 258°, distant 2-4 miles. h. From the S: Penguin Point on the right, bearing 047°, distant i-8 miles. i. Wordie Point and West Bluff from the S: the outlying rock bearing 357°, distant 8 cables. manner which we all found convincing. The exact position of the crater could not be decided, but we think it probable that one edge is broken away, as on Zavodovski, and that it lies to the north of the summit. So far as we were able to observe the whole island is covered in glacier, which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography; Great Britain. Colonial Office. "Discovery" Committee. London, New York, Cambridge University Press
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