PROFESSOR DAVID'S VIEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 5

PROFESSOR DAVID'S VIEWS

A VAST GLACIER. THE CREAT BARRIER. Christchurch. Friday. Professor David, interviewed, said ther« can now be little doubt that the barrier is formed partly of glacial ice and partly of snow. This view us to its origin is reudered highly probable through the discovery by Lieut. Shackleton and life party of a, vast glacier fifty miles wide and .120 miles long, descending from an elevated inland plateau over 10,000 feet above -sea level. This glacier improbably one of the many which go to feed the Great Barrier. The great glacier described by the southern party is ted from snows near the South Pole and by its forward movement presses up the'surface of the barrier for twenty ' miles from the shore line or inland edge into a aeries of long pressure ridges like a continuation of large ocean waves. Important evidence -was found by Mcintosh and the depot-laying party as to the actual seaward movement of the barrier caused "by the pressure of the inhvnil glacier. Further south it was found that the Dieovery's depot A, near Minna bluff, had travelled two geographical miles to east north-east in a period of six years and two months. It was also proved by the same party that eight feet two inches of snow Iliad fallen during the same interval of time at the present eite of depot A.