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Deception Id. Feb 13, 1963 [[insertion]] [[circled]] Yankee Hbr [[/circled]] [[/insertion]]  \\[[underlined]] Greenwich Id [[/underlined]]// 
We were rushed away from here, given an hr. to pick up traps so they could go to Greenwich Id to lay over in order to make Hope Bay in a.m. the next day. 
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[[underlined, in red]] Anchored off Yankee Hbr [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] Greenwich Id. [[/insertion]] discovered by Palmer in   . Rather thick sheet of broken bits of ice ± consolidated to extent of keeping us off bluff forefoot which was penguin area, almost wholly gentoos in all only three chinstraps were seen and at widely separated places. Helo frightened them out of their skins, Poor devils rushed back and forth first one way & then reverse as Helo circled. Lots of building land, but I would say no real boat shelter and ice cliffs near enough/to keep supplying bay width ice. This up on far right hand corner of Bay. Spit is of [[insertion]] water worm [[/insertion]] rounded rocks for most part twice size of fist, to coarse gravel, all tossed up as if sand in a sand dune but this is a stone dune some miles long. and widening from [[insertion]] outward [[/insertion]] tip to where it joins land this is more coarse sand. Bits of moss at rare intervals, some on one of [[insertion]] very few [[/insertion]] large rock sticking up/on "dune" surface. [[image: two humps, denoting "dune"]] This is in valleys and ridges, windrows of stones, tide rises high and in storms waters must rush over whole of this "rampart". I question adviseability of getting caught in here. What is holding ground for anchors. Water shoals up toward spit and land making [[insertion]] made [[/insertion]] it difficult for LSCV. to land us