Deception Islaw2, 
February 12, I3, 1963 
This place bas laost everything, plenty of "flat” laxsi for building 
Bite® aiMJ airstrijffi, and plenty of nmnlng B»lt-4#ater - even a "built-in" 
source of heat, and jwwer perhaps, ll::©*ml wells pjroduce heat and power 
in New 2ealar»i’s Horth Island in Italy. Why not here where clouds of 
steam arise at low tide frosj the beach sands down in front of the old whale 
factory? 
For him who wishes to study Chlnstrai^, this stoulfl be the place. 
Some 250,0CX) Chinstrape live on the outer slopes of this old volcarK>. Excel- 
lent aecoimaaatlons could parobably be arranged for at ary one of the three 
bases or stations maintained here by as many different nations, Argentina, 
Chile, and the United Kingdom* 
A number of otter birds are to be fotsnd neeting here as well. Cape 
pigeons are around sost of the year except between August 11 ate September 8, 
Coj3®on also is tte Dominican gull, which In contrast to Its fellows in the 
Argentine Islands much farther south, is a non-resident at Deception Island. 
At Deception, we find also sheath-bills (or snow petrels), Wlleon’e storm 
^tr^ls, the giamt petrel, Bwallow-talled (or antarctic terns), ate blue- 
^•ed shags, Gentoo penguins are occasional j sometimes "touring parties" 
of 10 or a dozen surrive, at times accompanied by single Adelies, At times 
macaroni penguiM are seeaj three pair® have been seen nesting among the 
Chiastraps, Bird -wise, this is an altogether interesting place. 
In tte course of a brief period ashore three or fovir sheath-bills were 
noticed picking over a pile of rocks on shore, and behavir^ along the water’s 
ed^ like ao mny waders. Scrapings from the rocks were made. All that we 
