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Akoutan Is. May 12 1977 - The Bella maintained at anchor and none of the cargo was discharged owing to the heavy sea and the wind still blowing a gale. [[image of island sketched with text over]]
Went along the back to the point extending out to Akoutan Pass

The hills rise very abruptly from the shore and in several places form perpendicular cliffs rising from within a few yards of the shore which is bordered by a beach covered with large rounded cobble stones worn from the angular pieces which fall from the cliffs. One of these cliffs about 150 ft high was very striking being of basaltic formation and the [[strikethrough]] angular [[/strikethrough]] columns generally with 4-5 plane faces meeting at definite angles, extending from near the bottom to the top in one place the columns