The northern part is similar in character to Coats' Land.

It is fronted by an undulating barrier, the van of a mighty ice-sheet that is being forced outward from the high interior of the Antarctic Continent and apparently is sweeping over low hills, plains, and shallow seas as the great Arctic ice-sheet once pressed over Northern Europe.

The barrier surface, seen from the sea, is of a faint golden brown colour.

It terminates usually in cliffs ranging from 10 to 300 ft.

in height, but in a very few places sweeps down level with the sea.