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[[insertion, preprinted]] 29 JAN---Anchored 2 miles north of Argentine Islands. Conducted survey Petermann Island. Proceeded to Argentine Islands. USARP party visited British station Argentine Islands. [[/preprinted]]

Argentine Ids. Jan 29/1963 (summ
E.C. Chinn (Base Leader, statistician)
F.B. Potts (Senior Met.
[[circled asterisk]] C.P. Kimber (Met. Radio Sonde)
A.[[strike]] C [[/strike]] Gluser (Met. R/S Glacial)
A. Mack (Met R/S)
J?) I Vichersstaff (Ionospherice)
C. Slater ("""[[dittos for: Ionospherice]])
C. Davies (Physicist)
A. Thorne Middleton (Cook) [Photo]
A. Reece (Carpenter)
C. Wade (Wireless Op.)
T. Tallis (Diesel Mech.)
R. Lewis (Scientific GH) (?6H)

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Jan. 29/63 Tuesday
[[underlined]] Galindez Id [[/underlined]]

Twenty nine degrees this a.m. (29° F. [[insertion]] at 5 a.m [[/insertion]]) was 30 an hour before. skuas and [[insertion]] black backed [[/insertion]] gulls mostly standing on one leg.  some sitting down, a few with both legs down, one or two flapping and soaring about.

[[margin]] on ice berg by ship [[insertion, with arrow]] [[underlined]] on ice berg close by [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] [[/margin]]
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This days orders: move to Argentine Ids at 1300. overcast [[image - stairs]] Got ashore 8:30 boat, and ret'd to ship at 11 just in time for lunch. Did no collecting. Visited the British Base here. Building 128 feet long - 28 wide houses everything but general storage and generator house which Jack says is a "hum dinger". Met Chinn, Lewis, and Potts, got from Lewis a bird list as follows:
Dominican Gull (resident)
Great Skuas (breed)
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Tern [Antarctic? [[insertion]] Swallow tailed? [[/insertion]]   (breed)
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Giant Petrel (visitor) appear in bad weather several to half dozen
Sheath bill (winter /visitor)
Wilson's Petrel (Breed)
Snow Petrel (breeds locally
Blue-eyed Comorant (breed)
Adelie Penguins =[[circled]] Valour Is; Peterman Petermens [[/circled]]
Gentoo  "[[ditto for: penguins]]
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Casuals, Chin strap, once an Emperor
Fish Lamprey & sardine type. fish.
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E. Chinn
55. St Clements Avenue
Leigh-on-sea
Essex
[[underlined]] England [[/underlined]]
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[[circled]] Birdman [[/circled]]
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F.Boyd Potts
110 Brackensdale Ave.
Kingsway, Derby, U.K.
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[[column 1]]
R.E.J. Lewis
Home Farm
Rowsham
Aylesbury, Bucks  during 1964
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[[column 2]]
British Antarctic Survey
Argentine Ids.
Via, Stanley, Falkland Islands
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[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] Second in command has for seper rooms 1 per
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