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[[insertion, clipping from ship's bulletin]] 13 JAN -- Posit 67-14.5S 122-14.0W. SOA 10.7 kts. Proceeding through edge of pack. 0 to 5/10 coverage. 5 to 20 ft thick block and small floe, heavy snow cover. 70 bergs. [[/insertion]]

dozen snow petrels 
Birds feeding on ice shelf of berg [[circled]] Ice berg [[/circled, with line leading to insertion point]] All around ^[[insertion]] on [[circled text]] [[/insertion]] at noon till 2 p.m. 
Blue streaks in iceberg stratified but helicopters out
From 1:30 [[underline]] a.m. [[/underline]] to 2:45 p.c. bread an 4th 1/2 cup coffee [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] for midday meal missed end of brunch [[/insertion]]

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Sun. Jan 13/63 
Sunday we have brunch 8 to 11 a.m, and dinner at regular time 5:20. It was a bright sunny day till mid afternoon. Temp. was up to 35, though with clouds, and a real heavy but of short duration snow fall the temp. quickly dropped to -32[[degree symbol]]. About noon we steamed around (all sides) a large snow white stratified berg. 85 or more feet highest part (can calculate size from this I guess) Everybody photo'd it, capt included. This was while helicopters were both put in the air to scout the ice fields We were still among the floating ice cakes and small bergs; plenty of ice in all directions interspersed with not two wide space of water with sparse masses (cakes and fragments) of ice. The fantastic shapes that these eroding masses of ice (cakes that is) too was amazing. chunks from 2 to 3 feet up to 6,8,10 feet long or square, or half as wide. One looked like the Fran & Ollie characters another like a huge bear with most realistic head, a swan, a camel, various birds and animals all caught ones eye, as characteristic of the animal sug-