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II.—The Geology of South Georgia2. 1. Notes on the Geology of South Georgia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. Ferguson
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The island of South Georgia is nine hundred miles S. 80° E. from the Falkland Islands. The coastline of the island is rock-bound and more or less precipitous, and there is neither open beach nor detrital flat on its outward margin. A narrow valley, a morainic flat, inside Cumberland Bay, runs up 4 miles to a glacier, and there are other patches of morainic material, marking the recession of the glaciers. Leith Harbour is one of these, and Elsie and Adventure harbours, originally enlarged by the ice into one channel, have been separated into two safe anchorages by morainic material.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , February 1914 , pp. 53 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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page 54 note 1 J. Weddell, A Voyage towards the South Pole, pp. 50–4.

page 54 note 2 O. Nordenskjöld, Antarctica, p. 340.

page 55 note 1 Fricker, K., The Antarctic Regions, 1900.Google Scholar

page 55 note 2 Heim, F., “Geologische Beobachtungen über Süd-Georgien. Geologie der Deutschen Antarktischen Expedition”: Zeit. Ges. Erdk. Berlin, 1912, No. 6.Google Scholar