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1963
[[page is divided into 3 main columns, separated initially by vertical lines]]
[[first column]]
[[heading]] [[underlined]] Air Temp [[/underlined]] [[/heading]]
[[4 sub columns, values separated initially by vertical lines; here by |]] [[headings]] [[blank]] | Max | Min | Av | [[/headings]]
Feb 1 | 37 | 32.5 | 34.1 |
2 | 39.2 | 34.1 | 36.6 |
3 | 41.2 | 35.1 | 38.3 |
4 | 39.5 | 35.2 | 37.3 |
5 | 44.0 | 36.0 | 38.8 |
6 | 40.0 | 32.0 | 36.2 |
7 | 37.0 | 34.5 | 35.3 |
8 | 38.0 | 33.5 | 36.0 |
9 | 42.0 | 34.9 | 38.5 |
10 | 37.2 | 31.2 | 34.4 |
11 | 36.0 | 31.2 | 33.3 |
12 | 39.4 | 32.6 | 35.8 |
13 | 38.1 | 33.8 | 35.9 |
14 | 37.0 | 31.3 | 33.8 |
15 | 32.4 | 29.0 | 30.5 |
16 | 34.6 | 25.0 | 29.2 |
17 | 35.0 | 24.3 | 28.0 |
18 | 32.8 | 28.0 | 30.8 |
19 | 34.0 | 27.2 | 30.4 |
20 | 36.0 | 30.0 | 33.7 |
21 | 37.7 | 33.0 | 34.5 |
22 | 36.6 | 31.9 | 34.8 |
23 | 34.2 | 30.9 | 32.8 |
24 | 36.5 | 31.0 | 33.6 |
25 | 37.0 | 33.0 | 35.1 |
26 | 38.6 | 31.4 | 34.3 |
27 | 37.4 | 34.0 | 36.0 |
28 | 33.4 | 28.0 | 32.7 |
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For month | 44.0 | 24.3 | 34.3 |
[[/first column]]
[[second column]]
[[heading]] Sea Temp [[/heading]]
[[3 sub columns, values separated initially by vertical lines, here by |]] [[headings]] Max. | Min | Av. | [[/headings]]
33 | 32 | 32 |
35 | 33 | 33 |
35 | 33 | 34 |
34 | 34 | 34 |
34 | 34 | 34 |
37 | 34 | 34 |
36 | 35 | 35 |
35 | 33 | 34 |
36 | 34 | 34 |
35 | 34 | 34 |
34 | 33 | 33 |
36 | 34 | 35 |
35 | 35 | 35 |
36 | 31 | 34 |
32 | 30 | 32 |
31 | 30 | 30.5 |
31 | 30 | 30 |
31 | 29 | 30 |
30 | 29 | 30 |
32 | 30 | 31 |
32 | 31 | 32 |
34 | 31 | 33 |
35 | 33 | 34 |
35 | 35 | 35 |
35 | 32 | 33 |
35 | 34 | 34 |
34 | 33 | 34 |
34 | 33 | 34 |
[[/second column]]
[[third column]]
[[heading]] Wind [[/heading]]
[[3 sub columns, values separated by |]]
| Prevail Direc |
[[headings]] Av | ^ | Peak |
| peak direc. | [[/headings]]
| E | |
[[strikethrough]] 32 [[/strikethrough]]
5 | E | 10 |
| var. | |
2.2 | N. | 9 |
| var | |
[[circled]] . [[/circled]] 8 | SSE | 5 |
| EN.E | |
1 | "[[ditto for: EN.E]] | 12 |
| NN.W | |
8.6 | "[[ditto for: NN.W]] | 18 |
| N.E | |
8 | N.E | 30
| S | |
10 | E | 27
| var. | |
10.2 | W.S.W | 23
| SW | |
8 | SSW | 20
| var | |
2 | S | 10
| var | |
4.8 | N.E | 29 |
| W.N.W | |
11 | "[[ditto for: W.N.W]] | 19 |
| W.N.W | |
11 | "[[ditto for: W.N.W]] | 31 |
| ESE | |
8 | W | 20 |
| SSE | |
19 | "[[ditto for: SSE]] | 32 |
| S | |
12 | SSW | 21 |
| N.E | |
8 | EN.E | 18 |
| SSW | |
20 | "[[ditto for: SSW]] | 33 |
| NNE | |
17 | "[[ditto for: NNE]] | 28 |
| N | |
18.3 | N.NE | 38
| N | |
22 | N.E | 47 |
| Northerly | |
16 | ENE | 30 |
| NNW | |
8.1 | "[[ditto for: NNW]] | 16
| N.E | |
7 | "[[ditto for: N.E]] | |
| W.N.W | |
12 | W | 30 |
| E | |
35.5 | "[[ditto for: E]] | 44
| N.W. | |
24 | W.S.W. | 43 |
| W | |
17 | SSW | 25 |
[[/third column]]
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Miles steamed in Feb. 1536.7
[[circled]] 165 mammals sighted [[/circled]]
Max Wind
36
AV
10.95
[[margin note, written vertically, bottom to top]] No. of obs. with precip. 265 [[/margin note]]
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[[circled]] 2 [[/circled]]
I mentioned meals – Breakfast choice of fruit juices, cold cereals, eggs, [[insertion]] any style [[/insertion]] ham and bacon, steak, waffles, hot cakes, honey or syrup, toast, coffee and while it last fresh milk 3 x a day; tea also, and I suppose cocoa if you ask for it. Two meals there were canned peaches for deseret and for last nights dinner N.Z. ice cream. Oh! yeas above was mostly about breakfast, lunch you may have soup, sandwiches of various kinds including hamburger, steak also. Dinner meat again – chicken one nite. This Sunday morning had homemade coffee cake (cinnamon cake), and other day delicious hot, glazed rolls. One could not fare better anywhere. McMurdo was plentiful, a bit more in the rough and ready style but good an varied; here with more finish and table cloths, linen napkins instead of paper
Spent quite a bit of time bird watching. It is a treat to see the albatrosses soaring high and low after the ship, and faster too; going [[insertion]] coming [[/insertion]] alongside they zoom ahead with the greatest of ease. I thought they did not light on the water; but when the garbage goes over they seem readily to do it. Cape-pigeons are about in limited
