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XI February 13 > 1963 
Yankee Harbor. 
Here "there is a. great deal of more or less level land upon which one 
could build. However, the long spit of rock, rounded boulders, stones, 
and gravel (shingle), strikes me as an area, that can be terribly wet, wind 
and wave swept at times. The stones forming the ocean front rampart seem 
and 
to have been piled up,/rolled about as so many grains of sand in a sand 
dune. On land there is no protection against storms, though the spit of¬ 
fers protection for boats within the harbor. 
Within the harbor we found the foreshore almost wholly blocked by 
drift ice, carried / there, and held by tidal or other currents. Though 
a fairly strong wind was blowing across the spit from the ocean side it 
had no effect on the ice sheltered from that wind by the spit low as it 
was. I get the impression that that ice is always and constantly kept re¬ 
plenished by slides from the ice cliffs that ring the other half of the 
harbor. 
The better building site, or sites, other things being discounted 
so far as terrain goes, are on the penguin rookery at the head of the 
harbor. For this reason, I recommend against this place for a, permanent 
station. 
Mosses, a few lichens, and samples of the algae on the beaches were 
collected. From moss scraped off a rock high on the spit we Berlesed more 
mites than I had seen so far on this trip. There were some Collembola too 
in the mosses collected ashore. 
Two dredge hauls were made at the ship's anchorage in 30 fms. The 
