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Possession Island, Victoria Land. Page 165.
CHAPTER VII.
Departure from Campbell Island.—Midsummer Day.—Christmas Day.—First Iceberg.—Whales.—Deep Soundings.—Cross the Antarctic Circle.—New Year's Day.—View of the Pack.—Refraction.—Enter the Pack.—False Appearance of Land.—Progress through the Pack.—Penguins.—Beset in the Pack.—Temperature of the Ocean.—Observations on the Ice.—Get into a clear Sea.—Land discovered.—Cape Adare.—Admiralty Range—Mount Sabine.—Cape Barrow.—Bellinghausen.—Land on Possession Island.—Southerly Gale.—Great Number of Whales.—Whale Fishery.—Mount Herschel.—Mount Lloyd.—Chain of Islets.—Soundings.—Harbours.—Stormy Weather.—Coulman Island.—Irregular Soundings.—Dredge in deep Water.—Corals.—Cape Wheatstone.—Current.—Mount Melbourne.—Land Ice.—Marine Invertebrata.