The cliffs are of dazzling whiteness, with wonderful blue shadows.

Far inland higher slopes can be seen, appearing like dim blue or faint golden fleecy clouds.

These distant slopes have increased in nearness and clearness as we have come to the south-west, while the barrier cliffs here are higher and apparently firmer.

We are now close to the junction with Luitpold Land.

At this southern end of the Caird Coast the ice-sheet, undulating over the hidden and imprisoned land, is bursting down a steep slope in tremendous glaciers, bristling with ridges and spikes of ice and seamed by thousands of crevasses.