“One seems to be entering a completely new and strange world, a veritable Never-Never Land,” he remarked. “The Strait never freezes except along its edges, and the evergreen Antarctic beech, with its tiny matted leaves, grows thickly along the lower mountain slopes. The middle slopes support a coarse grass which turns bronze in the setting sun; and above, the high peaks are snow-covered the year round; when it rains in the Strait, it snows at 6000 feet.”
