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This was said to "be the test year in the last six, more open water than 
usual. However, the ship had to shift position to avoid a sizeable ice¬ 
berg; can be a nuisance here. 
Avian Island despite its teeming bir life, fresh-water pools, many 
mosses, is not to be recommended as a station site because of the inter¬ 
ference with the penguin rookery (and the "mess" it would have to be lo- 
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Base T site hilly; good buildings, best is the one-man "weather shack", 
ideal set-up of what a one-man study and laboratory could be; sleep in. 
Rothera Point, though,has the building land - acreage and "founda,- 
tion"-wise, a fine place; a, low, level saddle between the hills toward 
the Point and the more mountainous piedmont to the right as viewed from 
the Bay landing. I wonder how wind-swept this place is; looks like a 
"draw". We had a fine day here, only a windy and stormy one would tell. 
There were only a few penguins here compared with the hundreds at 
Avian Island. Lt. Thomas attempted to walk around the short of the Point 
but gave it up because of the determined way the skuas, which must still 
have been nesting, dived at him; though he saw evidence of what might have 
been a, penguin rookery but no birds on it. Quite a few small bergs about 
in the landing area; seals on a number of them. 
