The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . es of our present situation. The ship appears to be safe, the shape of the island isfavourable to the establishment of our observatories, and theneighbourhood of Wandel will permit us, by comparison withthe observations of four years ago, to form some precise ideasof the physical and biological conditions of this region. Veryoften during our winter stay at Wandel we asked ourselveswhether, exposed as we were at the opening of the vast passageformed by De Gerlache Strait, this loca
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . es of our present situation. The ship appears to be safe, the shape of the island isfavourable to the establishment of our observatories, and theneighbourhood of Wandel will permit us, by comparison withthe observations of four years ago, to form some precise ideasof the physical and biological conditions of this region. Veryoften during our winter stay at Wandel we asked ourselveswhether, exposed as we were at the opening of the vast passageformed by De Gerlache Strait, this local influence did notcause some modifications of the general conditions. Here itwill be easy for us to find this out. From another point of view it seemed to us also in 1904that the. difficulty of exploration, caused by the frequentshifting of the pack-ice, ceased with Petermann (Lund) are justified, therefore, in hoping to be able to make ex-cursions along the coast, and the configuration of the glaciersituated right in front of our haven seems favourable to ourpenetration even on to the AUTUMN, WINTER, AND SPRING, 1909 Lastly, and this consideration must not be despised, thereis on Petermann Island a well populated penguin rookery,which promises us in the autumn and spring material bothfor study and for food ; not only fresh meat but also eggs,when it pleases these good birds to provide them for us. Andthere is also the amusement to be derived from them. Our kingdom is about 2 kilometres at its greatest length,and the island is divided into two sections united by an isth-mus of a little more than 200 metres broad, which separatestwo picturesque fjords with generally steep cliffs. The north-ern section is a big ice-cap, 127 metres high, with scarped walls,terminating to the north-west in an outcrop of huge only possible passage by land between the north andsouth sections is a very steep slope, tiring to climb whethercovered with soft snow or whe
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