There is evidently a fairly extensive bank at the foot of the rookery.

There is probably good anchorage behind some of the bergs, but none of these afford shelter for landing on the beach, on which the sea is now breaking incessantly; it would have taken weeks to land the ordinary stores and heaven only knows how we could have got the ponies and motor sledges ashore.

Reluctantly and sadly we have had to abandon our cherished plan--it is a thousand pities.

Every detail of the shore promised well for a wintering party.

Comfortable quarters for the hut, ice for water, snow for the animals, good slopes for ski-ing, vast tracks of rock for walks.