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SOME valuable details of new discoveries in Antarctica accompanied by photographs are contained in an article in the National Geographic Magazine for July by Mr. L. Ellsworth on “My Flight across Antarctica”. It will be remembered that in December of last year, Mr. Ellsworth reached the Bay of Whales in the Ross Sea after a flight from Dundee Island, Graham Land. This took him over an entirely unknown part of Antarctica to the Pacific side of the Pole. South of Stefansson Strait he discovered a lofty rugged mountain range with an apparent trend between north-north-west and south-south-east. Farther on, other peaks appeared, one rising to 13,000 feet. Mr. Ellsworth made several landings in about lat. 80° S. and found a plateau at an elevation of more than 6,000 ft. He gave the names Hollick-Kenyon plateau to this elevated country, and James W. Ellsworth Land to the whole area between Hearst Land and Marie Byrd Land. The photographs of the new mountains do not suggest the block faulted mountains of Queen Maud Ranges, but rather the Andean ranges of Graham Land which, from Admiral Byrd's recent discoveries, would seem to continue into Edward Land.
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Discoveries in Antarctica. Nature 138, 238 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138238a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138238a0