Identifier: scottishgeograph25scotuoft (find matches)
Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Pole, 72° 25S., 155° 16E., their route wasrelatively easy. Returning to the coast they were picked up on February4th, after two days wait, by the Nimrod, which had previously reachedHut Point and gone north again along the shores of Albert Mountainsin search of them. The journey had important results in geology andmagnetism, and some excellent triangulation of the coast from ButterPoint to Drygalski Glacier was carried out. The party, small as it was,yet was a strong one scientifically and had a great advantage in being ledby so eminent a scientist as Professor David. While these chapters haveneither the graphic nor the laconic style of those from the pen of Sir ErnestShackleton, they are nevertheless well written, though perhaps suftering 642 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. a little from want of condensation. The journey was by no means aneasy one, and, if it did not entail the hardships that the southern journeydid, we must remeinlier tliat out of the most creditable total of 1260
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Fig. 3.—Emperor Penguins. miles no less than 740 were relay work ; and no sledging is moredispiriting and discouraging than this. The party, moreover, had noponies or dogs for traction, nor did they, as we feel they might wellhave done, lighten their labour by travelling on ski. Their discovery THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC : A REVIEW, 643 by the Nimrod on Drygalski Glacier reflects great credit on CaptainEvans, as evidence of the thoroughness with which he carried out adifficult search along 150 miles of indented coast-line. A third sledge party, consisting of Messrs Armytage, Priestley, andBrocklehurst, spent forty-eight days in a geological exploration of FerrarGlacier and the adjacent mountains. On the way to New Zealand some good work was done insketching in about forty-five miles of the missing coast-line west ofCape North, but unfortunately it was too late in the season to pursue

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