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i’eoruary 'tiB 
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March 3-Jt, 1963 
Ardley Island area and Potters Cove, King George Island. 
Thla Febnsary 28, at 0515> Capt. McDonald and I had a helicopter 
flight over Ardley Island and vicinity. We did not get over Potters Cove. 
There vei*e lote of lakes in the hills and lowlands. Had a gpod view of 
the reef exposed at low tide that leads swae to call the island Ardley 
Peninsula , 
The bad weather we encoimtered on March 3, that ruled out all opera- 
tions in Collins Hait)Or, continued over the 5th ai^ interfered with all 
plans. TJie survey party that went ashore, had only I5 minutes there before 
being recalled. 
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Weather, however, did not Interfere with a dredge haul on the after- 
noon of the 28th. The very muddy bottom over which the drag was mde, ^7 
fathoms down, must be covered, literally, with a forest of worm tubes, the 
work, I should s^, of sob® 6 to IC different species of wotTjte; an eijual 
nuetoer of ascidian species were eomted in this haul too, so intimtely 
raust eoB® of them have been associated with the txd?e worms that they had 
grown aroairi the tci>ee, and i»ed them for supports j there were also iydroidsj 
three or four species of mo Husks j tliree of sponges; two of starfish; sikS 
two of ophluraiis; lastly, a single isopcd. 
Ke did get our fish trspe over but they were left on the bottom to 
be picked up on our return fr<8n Arthur Earbor where we were to go for the 
next day or two. It was a gemrally bad day when we got back to them on 
March 3« 
On our way to get the traps we dropped a survey party, including 
