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[[stamped]]
CAMP WELLMAN,
DANE'S ISLAND, SPITZBERGEN
[[/stamped]

[[stamped]] JUL 2, 1909 [[/stamped]]

Friday
Wind N - strong & cold with some snow in the air. Yet sun shines at times. Men Started to raise the Tower today.
afternoon it became much colder & continued to spit snow First Arch completed and ready to raise
Froze & made ice today

This climate is fierce
Bay full of drifting ice