This archive account - [www.gutenberg.org] - contains some description of the landscape and weather at the end of the 19th century in the vicinity of Grahamland (about 160 mi. from Horseshoe Island, as mentioned in the photograph accompanying "The Guardian" article):

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Every valley and every surface which is not perpendicular is buried by a sheet of never-melting ice (149).

But, fifty years later, perhaps the situation was already giving an ominous hint of things to come: after the Antarctic midwinter on 22nd June 1954, the weather in July was unexpectedly good (Quartermain, L.B., “Spring comes to the Antarctic,” Antarctic News Bulletin, Sep 1954: 122).

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