XVII February 28 
March 4, 1963 
Ardley Island area and Potters Cove, King George Island. 
This February 28, at 0515 Capt. McDonald and I had a helicopter 
flight over Ardley Island and vicinity. We did not get over Potters Cove. 
There were lots of lakes in the hills and lowlands. Had a, good view of 
the reef exposed at low tide that leads some to call the island Ardley 
Peninsula. 
The had weather we encountered on March 3 that ruled out all opera¬ 
tions in Collins Harbor, continued over the 5th and interfered with all 
plans. Tne survey party that went ashore, had only 15 minutes there be¬ 
fore being recalled. 
#64-63 Weather, however, did not interfere with a dredge haul on the after¬ 
noon of the 28th. The very muddy bottom over which the drag was made, 
47 fins, down, must be covered, literally, with a forest of worm tubes, 
the work, I should say, of some 8 to 10 different species of worms; an 
equal number of ascldian species were counted in this haul too, so in¬ 
timately must some of them been associated with the tube worms that they 
had grown around the tubes, and used them for supports; there were also 
hydroids; 3-4 species of mollusks; 3 of sponges; 2 of starfish, and 2 of 
ophiurans; lastly a single isopod. 
We did get out fish traps over but they were left on the bottom to 
be picked up on our return from Arthur Harbor where we were to go jtyi for 
the next day or two. It was a generally bad day when we got back to them 
on March 3• 
On our way to get the traps we dropped a survey^ party, including 
