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numbers of forms of animal and plant life. 
With the foregoing in mind I definitely favor placing the biological 
station or stations, if there is to be more than one, or a main base with 
one or more satellite bases, one or all, on a line running from Arthur 
Harbor through Port Lockroy to Paradise Harbor. 
Arthur Harbor as a site for a base or major station comes first to 
mind as the best possible site for most counts. It is a very favored 
area, weather, ice, boat shelter, water supply, and perhaps also "pied¬ 
mont" for aircraft landings, abundance, though not necessarily variety of 
terrestrial life (birds primarily), marine life, and ready access to a 
great variety of environments within not unreasonable distance. This 
ready access to a, great variety of environments holds good for the other 
two sites on our projected line of stations, Port Lockroy and Paradise 
Harbor. 
Twenty miles to the south of this "base line" is the Lemaire Chan¬ 
nel. Here we spent the night of January 27 drifting about in this sceni- 
cally breath-taking area where the mountains are as impressive and at the 
same time as fantastic or as beautiful in shape and form as any iceberg 
of imposing size and beauty so far encountered on this journey along the 
antarctic coast from McMurdo to Marguerite Bay and Adelaide Island to 
Arthur Harbor and now to this outstanding natural beauty spot. 
Enhancing many fold the sheer beauty of our surroundings were the 
crystal clear reflections in the placid 200 fathoms deep waters of the 
channel those majestic mountains rising from the water's edge to snow- 
