XVIII 
Admiralty Bay. 
March 4, 5, 1963 
Here, too, we ©truck bad weather, hi^ winds and poor visibility, and 
were unable to effect a boat lathing on either side of the Keller Peninsula. 
Tried the east side the afternoon of tte 4th but four»3 too much ice in the 
shallow water inshore. The survey party was put ashore by helidopter. 
Because of continuing unfavorable winds the projected landing on the 
west side of the Peninsula on the 5th was also given up. 
However, a dredge haul was accorapllshed on the 4th, It was a rather 
laeager one, containing a nusijer of tube-building worms, starfish, atad a 
clam or two. 
The depth was 22 fath 
f 
the bottom imid. 
Our fish traps put over this same evening, but not lifted until mid- 
TOmlng of the 5th (having waited for the wind to die down) ,, contained a 
very scanty catch, a couple of worms | soti^ aphlpodsj and a starfish. 
Coming up this area under very unfavorable circuaistances, our trials 
were limited, nor could a thoroiigh examimtion be made of the site on the 
each side of the peninsula. However, there appeared to be land enough for 
an extensive installation if one had to be placed here. 
The last w© saw of King George Island was Penguin Island off to the 
east. Between poor visibility and the need for keeping a safe distance 
offshore in bad weather we were not in a position to identify the bird 
colonies said to be on this little island and the adjacent nearby shore. 
As we passed the spray over the ship almost obscured our si^it of the 
island, sheets of it went right up against the wheelhouse windows, a good 
70 feet above sea level. 
Thus it was as we bowed out of the Palmer Peninsula area and the South 
Shetland 6 . 
