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Smith Island
Cape Parker
Greely Expedition
"We are camped on a point
a short distance above Wade
Point, and just below Alfred
Newton Glacier." "Both the land
and seaor say that Greerle Island
is very small, and is situated
of the northern end of an off-
shoot of Sefferts Glacier.
Seffert's Glacier in the main
discharges into- Rosse Bay,
buit off shoots come into - the
south of the bay, being turned
by the Promontory. -- We shall
probably move to a low
plateau on the south side
of Alfred Newton glacier and
about a mile distant -.
They go over the glacier to Ross
Bay ... They unanimously
agreed that a point just south
of Alfred Newton Glacier would
be the best... He moved part
of the camp, with rations for
several days to a point about
five hundred yards south of