noon
86 ° 12 ' south latitude . 114 ° 17 ' east longitude . The iceberg was nearly four degrees beyond the antarctic pole , and from the western longitudes that our schooner had followed tracing the course of the _ Jane _ , we had passed into the eastern longitudes . A little after noon , the iceberg was within a mile of the land . After their dinner , the crew climbed up to the topmost block , on which Dirk Peters was stationed . On our approach the half-breed descended the opposite slope and when I reached the top he was no longer to be seen . The land on the north evidently formed a continent or island of considerable extent .