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Figure 1.14. Shaded-relief map of Granite Harbour. Pink denotes the track of
Discovery
. When the ship
had penetrated as deep as it could, Scott led a party of four on foot across the tight pack (red). When
the men reached land at Discovery Bluff, they climbed up to its shoulder to view the ice tongue issu-
ing into the center of the bay and the rocky walls rising around its perimeter. In 1912, during Scott's
ill-fated southern journey, a party led by Taylor (yellow) retraced Scott's path onto Discovery Bluff
and explored into the middle reaches of Mackay Glacier (see Figs. 3.13-3.16).
encircled by steep bluVs of dark red and brown rock, several hundred feet high, which
converged on a glacier emptying into the head of the bay (Fig. 1.14).
The ice floes were extremely smooth and gave the appearance of having formed un-
der quite protected conditions. They had only recently broken up, and were most pecu-
liar looking in that they were cracked into perfect rectangles, unlike the typical polygonal
floes ground or hoved up at their boundaries. Discovery pushed into the floes as far as pos-
sible toward a blunt cape on the south side of the fjord, and then stopped.
Scott organized a shore party consisting of Wilson, Koettlitz, and Shackleton, and
soon they were scampering over the ice floes in their sea boots, crossing at points of
