"We steered in towards the Barrier," wrote Stenhouse, "and found an opening leading into a large bight which jutted back to eastward into the Barrier.

We endeavoured without success to scale the steep ice-foot under the cliffs, and then proceeded up the bay.

Pulling along the edge of perpendicular ice, we turned into a bay in the ice-cliff and came to a cul-de-sac, at the head of which was a grotto.

At the head of the grotto and on a ledge of snow were perched some adelie penguins.

The beautiful green and blue tints in the ice-colouring made a picture as unreal as a stage setting.