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South!

CHAPTER II
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We took shelter under the lee of a large stranded berg.
A blizzard from the east-north-east prevented us leaving the shelter of the berg on the following day (Sunday, January 17).

The weather was clear, but the gale drove dense clouds of snow off the land and obscured the coast-line most of the time.

"The land, seen when the air is clear, appears higher than we thought it yesterday; probably it rises to 3000 ft.

above the head of the glacier.

Caird Coast, as I have named it, connects Coats' Land, discovered by Bruce in 1904, with Luitpold Land, discovered by Filchner in 1912.


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