II 
January 22-25 
March 1, 1963 
Arthur Harbor area - British Base N, Bonaparte Point and vicinity, Janus 
and Torgeson Islands. 
There are quite a number of seals about; we had no difficulty in lo¬ 
cating a Weddell on an ice cake for bait. 
The area is rich in bird life, especially Adelies. There is a large 
and populous rookery on Torgeson Island, and other sizeable colonies scat¬ 
tered through the area,. About Cap Monaco to the west are six islets with 
rookeries on them, there is also a colony at Biscoe Bay on the S. W. coast 
of Anvers Island ( tide sailing directions); others on Litonfield, Halfway 
f 
and Humble Islands (tide Berg helo flight), Giant petrels, skuas, Dominican 
gulls, as always and in considerable numbers, Antarctic terns, and sheath- 
bills. Many dead limpet shells ashore, others gathered from rooks at tide 
level. 
Mosses and lichens, grass clumps collected, and insects berlesed from 
this vegetation. 
Fresh water algae and fairy shrimp were found in the pools atop the 
bluff above the Base N hut. Along shore at Bonaparte Pt. and at Base N 
marine algae and a few amphipods were dip-netted. 
Dredge hauls were especially productive - a varied and abundant fauna 
on a staff blue mud bottom, 12-17 fathoms, - a species of spong e, sea 
urchins, 2 sp. starfish, worms in number, the nemerteans proved to be the 
common species throughout the area (Amphiporus), 2-3 species of annelids 
(Nereis, Terebella and at least one other), b species of mollusks, and 
