barrier-cliff

Updated: June 2, 2025

We steamed along the front of this tremendous glacier for 40 miles and then, at 8.30 a.m., we were held up by solid pack-ice, which appeared to be held by stranded bergs. The depth, two cables off the barrier-cliff, was 134 fathoms.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition