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Island A Giant Petrel on the nest A Young Giant Petrel on the nest. Caroline Cove The wreck of the "Clyde" The boat harbour--Hassleborough Bay The North End of Macquarie Island showing Wireless Hill. The living hut is at the north end of the isthmus, with North-East Bay on the right and Hassleborough Bay on the left side The 'Aurora' anchored in Hassleborough Bay. In the foreground giant seaweed is swinging in the wash of the surge A Wanderer Albatross at rest on the water Hunter tickles a sleeping baby Sea Elephant A typical Table-Topped neve berg originating from floating Shelf Ice An Antarctic iceberg with a reticulation of crevasses on its tilted surface. This berg had no doubt taken its origin from the ice of the coastal cliffs of Adelie Land In Pack-Ice A cavern in the wall (120 feet) of the shelf ice of the Mertz Glacier-Tongue A glimpse from within the cavern (shown in the preceding illustration) The 'Aurora' in Commonwealth Bay; the rising plateau of Adelie Land in the distance The invaluable motor-launch; left to right, Hamilton, Bickerton, and Blake The whale-boat with passengers for the shore; Wild at the steering oar First steps in the formation of the Main Base Station; landing of stores and equipment at the head of the Boat Harbour, Cape Denison. In the distance men are to be seen sledging the materials to the site selected for the erection of the hut A view of a rocky stretch of the Adelie Land Coast west of Commonwealth Bay A panorama looking west from winter quarters. On the left and in the distance are the rising slopes of the inland ice. The moraine is in the foreground A panorama of the sea front looking eastward from winter quarters. The plateau slopes are visible to a height of l500 feet In open pack-ice The face of the Shackleton Ice-Shelf 100 miles north of the mainland. Each strongly-marked horizontal band on the sheer wall represents a year's snowfall The 'Aurora' anchored to thick floe-ice 100 miles north of the western base, Queen Mary Land. In this region the annual snowfall is very heavy, so that it is possible that the great thickness of floe is due to the accumulation of one year A berg with inclusions of mud and rock. Long. 10 degrees E. The 'Flying-Fox' viewed from the floe-ice below the brink of the shelf ice on which the western party wintered Summer at the boat harbour, Cape Denison An Adelie penguin on the nest defend
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