V 
II Janiffiry 22-25 
, ‘ I^rch 1 , 1963 
Arth.ur Harbor area - British Base Bonaparte Point ajid vicinity, Janus 
&rs& Torgeson Islands 
There are quite a nuj^er of seals about} we Imd no difficulty in 
locating a Weddell on an ice cake for bait. 
The area is rich in bird life, e8|®cially Adelies, There is a large 
and populous rookery on Torgeson Islai^, and other sizeable colonies scat- 
tered through the area. About Cap Monaco to the west are six islets with 
rookeries on them} there is also a colony at Biscoe Bay on the S, W, coast 
of Anvers Island ( fide sailing directions) } others on Lltonfield, Halfway 
and Eicsble Islands ( fide Berg belo fll^t). Giant petrels, skuas, Dominican 
gulls, ae always and in consideirable nun&ers, Antarctic terns ^ and sheath- 
bills, dead limpet shells ashore, others ^thered frtmi rooks at tide 
level. 
Uoneee and lichens, grass cluraps collected, and insects berlesed from 
this vegetation, 
Fresh water algae ar«3 fairy slirirap were found in the j«x>le atop the 
bluff above the Base K hut. Along shore at Bormparte Pt* and at Bose H 
imrlne algae and a few affiphipods were dip-netted. 
^7-63 Dred^ hauls were especially productive - a varied and abundant fauna 
on a staff blw mud &ott<M8, 12-17 fathOES, - a species of eijonge, sea 
urchiiM, 2 sp, etaarfish, vorm in nujaijer, the nemerteans proved to be the 
coiKBOn species throughout the area ( Am^hiporus) . 2-3 species of annelids 
(Nereis, Terebella and at least one otlner), 4 species of ijrallusks, and 
