The frigid-arid climate that now prevails in ice-free parts of Victoria Land, Antarctica inhibits glacial erosion. If certain landscapes, more or less remote from the great troughs of outlet glaciers have been glaciated in the past as seems very probable, landforms that resulted from glaciation have been replaced by surfaces of different origin. A widespread landscape glaciation was probably contemperaenous with the excavation of large cirques which still survive in mountain summit areas. Replacement of glaciated landforms by others, in a general paring down of the land surface to forms of moderate relief, seems to have resulted from the process of gravity removal of debris from precipitous rock outcrops that were retreating because of disintegration by salt weathering and were eventually eliminated, in most cases, so that the landscape became a mosaic of smooth denudation of slopes inclinded at 33 to 35 deg.