. The Antarctic manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 . Scientific expeditions; Natural history; Geophysics. EXPLORATION OF AKTARCTIC LANDS. 475 not to be found in Palmer land, they must come from a southern con- tinent, and have been deposited here as the lateral moraine of a vast glacier which must have iilled up the whole of Hughes gulf; and in any case there is evidence of a furmer great extension of glaciers—that is to say, of a glacial period. Lecointe made an astronomical observation.* At 4 we were under way again, steering S. by E. towards the island where we had first land
. The Antarctic manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 . Scientific expeditions; Natural history; Geophysics. EXPLORATION OF AKTARCTIC LANDS. 475 not to be found in Palmer land, they must come from a southern con- tinent, and have been deposited here as the lateral moraine of a vast glacier which must have iilled up the whole of Hughes gulf; and in any case there is evidence of a furmer great extension of glaciers—that is to say, of a glacial period. Lecointe made an astronomical observation.* At 4 we were under way again, steering S. by E. towards the island where we had first landed. The sky was somewhat overcast, at first bj' flame-shaped cirrus, then by alto-cumulus, the cirrus becom- ing transformed into cirro-stratus, and, finally, before sunset a low haze formed on the sea, grew thicker for a while, but shortly after sunset it cleared once more, and we saw the islands and mountains in the south quite distinctly. Wednesday, January 26, was entirely spent between Two Hummocks island, the island of our first landing, and two groups of islets situated. FIG. 5.—THE MOUNT NEAB FIFTH LANDING. further north. In the afternoon Lecointe, Danco and Eacovitza landed on the island of our first landing in order to make magnetic and astronomical observations, while Cook, Amundsen and I landed on Two Hummocks island (VI on map, Fig. 2). Taken as a whole, this island presents a very characteristic form; it is narrow and entirely covered with a thick mantle of snow, which gives it a convex appear- ance. Two pyramidal mountains project like nunataks, contrasting with the general smooth outline; these two hummocks are ranged in the direction of the length of the island. We landed on the north coast in the hope of being able to climb one of the mountains, and found that the shore was formed by a cliff of ice with only a few promontories of bare rock. I did not see the ice actually immersed in the water at any point; a very narrow strip of bare rock always separated
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