nmrbers of foras of aniiaal and plant life. 
With the foregoing in mind I definitely favor placing the biological 
station or stations, if there is to be jaore than one, or a wain base with 
one or isKJre satellite bases, one or all, on a line running from Arthur 
Harbor through Port Lockroy to Paradise Harbor, 
Arthur Harbor ae a site for a base or laajor station coi»@ first to 
mind as the best possible site on most counts. It is a very favored area, 
weather, ice, boat shelter, water supply, and perhaps "piedisont" for 
aircraft landings, abundance, though mt necessarily variety of terres- 
trial life (birds prlaarlly) , ssarin© life, and ready access to a great 
variety of enviroia^nts within not unreasonable distance, Ihis ready ac- 
cess to a great variety of enviroiaaents holds good for the other two sites 
on our projected line of stations. Port Lockrc^ and Paradise Harbor, 
'Twenty miles to the south of this "base line" is the lemire Channel. 
Here we spent the night of Janumy 27 drifting about in this scenically 
breath-taking area where the muntalns are As c a a i ol - o and at the same 
tits^ as fantastic or as beautifxil in shape and form as any iceberg of 
iE^sing size and beauty so far encountered on this Journey along the antarc- 
tic coast from McMurdo to !4argUierlte Bay Adelaide Island to Arthur 
Harbor and now to this outstai^aing natural beauty spot. 
Enhancing miy fold the steer beauty of our surioundings were the crys- 
tal clear reflections in tiie placid 20C fathoms deep waters of the channel 
of those Bsajestic nwuntains rising from the water’s edge to snow-topped peaks, 
