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topped peaks, doffing from time to time their caps of clouds thus grant¬ 
ing the "hy-stander" an opportunity to photograph them full stature.* 
* "in all their imposing grandaur" I wanted to add hut dared not. I heg 
to he forgiven for running in this "rave" hut you would have heen moved to 
feel it, not say much the same had you heen with us that lovely night of 
January 27, 19^3• 
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Thirty to 35 miles to the south you come to Cape Tuxen and Green Is¬ 
land in the Berthelots with its "...luxuriant growth of moss nearly four 
acres in extent...hy far the largest unbroken (sic) patch of vegetation 
yet found in Antarctica". On the way, having passed Pleneau and Petermann 
Island, with their Adelie and Gentoo rookeries, shag and tern colonies, 
and the Argentine Islands, where on Galindez the British Base in this area 
is located, you also would have seen fields of ice on which numerous seals 
were lying about. 
Eight miles from the western end of the base-line is Cape Monaco 
(not seen) with its reported garland of six islets, reported as crowded 
with penguins in season, and 42 miles out of Bismarck Strait you come to 
Victor Hugo Island, and beyond that the open sea,. 
Some 50 miles to the north via the Ueumayer Channel, an interesting 
stretch itself, are the Melchior Islands off the north coast of Anvers 
Island with its inhospitable embayments. In the Melchiors, on Lambda 
Island, is an unoccupied Argentine Base. Though there was not much on 
land to interest us the fishing was good and the dredging promising. 
