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Tl«re -vias mich tee floating about, mking tow-netting difficult. This 
was said to be the best year in tte last six, BK>re o^n water than ueial. 
However, t!ie ship had to shift position to avoid a sizeable icebergs can 
be a nuisance here. 
Avian Island despite its teeming bird life, fresh-water pools, mny 
losses, is not to be recomoended as a station site because of the inter- 
fes^iKie with th& penguin rookery (aixl the "mess" it would have to be located 
in| no suitable space not occupied, but I did not get over much of the 
island) , 
Base ff site hilly j i^X)d buildings, beet Is the one-man (leather shack," 
ideal e@t-up of what a one-mn study and laboratoi^ could be| and sleep-in. 
Rothera Point, thou^i, 1ms the building land (acreage and "fomadation- 
wlee,” a fine place)-- a low, level saddle between tlie "hills" toward the 
Point and the msre mouataiBOua piediaont to the right as viewed from the Bs^ 
landing. I wonder how wlrd-swept this place iej looks like a "draw." We 
had a fine day here, only a wir-dy and stormy one would tell. 
There were only a few penguins tore compared with the hundreds at Avian 
Islato. Lt , Thc®as attempted to walk around the shore of the Point but gave 
it up because of the determined wsy the ekms, which must still have been 
nesting, dived at hlmj although he saw evidence of what mi^t have been a 
^nguin rookery but no birds on it. Quite a few small bergs about in the 
landing area; seals on a nimfi>er of them. 
