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[[circled]] Feb. 24th [[/circled]]  up at 4 am. [[insertion]] in LCSV [[/insertion]] at 5 a.m [insertion]] Sunday [[/insertion]] in LCSV had some trouble finding landing at Spring Point - sort of rough ground yet there was a place for the Bell to land. is bird free though most of adjacen ids & islets have penguins ice conditions
[[left margin, extended {]] Got [[underlined]] grass [[/underlined]] in fruit, [[insertion]] with seeds [[/insertion]], said to be unusual; also some sea-weed and moss & few lichens. 
Terns, Skuas, Black Backed gulls penguin sp on isl[[strikethrough]] et [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] and [[/underlined]] offshore undetermine because of ice [[/left margin]] conditions and need to get back to ship for 9: a.m. departure up coast. // Capt Mac is flying begining 9.10 a.m. over land the discovery of which is credited (by Americans) to Palmer. 
>Got underway @ [[blank space]] for Mikkelson Hbr. where there is an Argentine refugio on little Islet, on which are Gentoo penguins. Skottsberg Cape forms N.W. end of Bay on its outer side & way on top [[left margin, blue vertical line]] of cliffs there Chinstrap penguins, which when [[underlined, in red]] helicopter frightened them started jumping off 50-100 foot high cliff on top of which they lived. [[/left margin]] Many Black backed gulls no end at Spring Point, [[/underlined]] about ship in Harbor many Wilson's storm Petrels. [[left margin note, in red]] shell on - shore photo'd [[/left margin]] The sunshine we enjoyed at spring point for a couple of hours 5:30 or 6 a.m. til 9, when we returned to ship, did not last long mists made visibility low, helicopters had to return, and for a time quite heavy snow flurries.