VIII 
February 8-10 , 19^3 
# 37-63 
WiUielBslm Bay - Svend Foyn Harbor - Salvemea Cewe area. 
In the afternoon of the the ship soved. into Wilhelmina Bay 
past Gape Anm. The Cape is reported to be the msting site of countless 
cormorants and gulls but distance and not the best visibility precluded 
identification of the birds whose rookeries we glis^sed. 
Capt. McDonald, who flew a helicopter reconnaissance of Wilhelaina 
Bay while the ship was lying-to, reportei? Ice cliffs on all sides, no 
building sites or boat shelters, two active glaciers, sow fast ice, 
fiie night of February 8, the ship anchored in SveM Foyn Harbor at 
19^0. We then took out our fish traps and wde a tow -net haul. The 
dredge came up einpty this evening, so the Tiaul wee not counted and no 
other attewptefj because of the lateness of the hour. 
Shore collecting also proved impractical this evening and the next 
day when a successful dredge irnul was corapletefl and the fish traps lifted. 
Draggedfrom l6 to 25 fathoms over sand and gravel bottom. I’he dredge 
bucket bro?jght in a foot -long nemertean vorm} several annelids | gome smll 
white starfish; a considerable nmsfijer of red eea-urebine of the gpeclee we 
have taken on a masber of occasions; a rather large ophiuran differing, so 
far as 1 could make out, from all previously caught; a nuaber of bryozoan 
fragBantEi the first brechlopods of the cruise, quite tir^’ fellows thougis; 
two species of mollucks; a few amjAtipods (as usual); and about a dozen 
sea-gqitirta . 
Thirteen nototbonild fish were trapped. Of these the largest jnessured 
