"A Cliff Of Ice Without Any Fissures"
1820 CE • Antarctica
“. . . a low white line ‘extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented an extraordinary appearance, gradually increasing in height, as we got nearer to it, and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between one hundred and fifty feet and two hundred feet above the level of the sea, perfectly at and level at the top, and without any ssures or promontories on its even seaward face.’” — Captain Sir James Clark Ross
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000081.htm
Image: John Wilson Carmichael, “The Ross expedition in the Antarctic.”
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