The absence of strong winds has the additional effect of allowing the ice to accumulate in masses, undisturbed.

Then great quantities of ice sweep along the coast from the east under the influence of the prevailing current, and fill up the bight of the Weddell Sea as they move north in a great semicircle.

Some of this ice doubtless describes almost a complete circle, and is held up eventually, in bad seasons, against the South Sandwich Islands.

The strong currents, pressing the ice masses against the coasts, create heavier pressure than is found in any other part of the Antarctic.

This pressure must be at least as severe as the pressure experienced in the congested North Polar basin, and I am inclined to think that a comparison would be to the advantage of the Arctic.