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Contents Foreword …………………………………………………………………………….............4 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………........6 Chapt. 1. Northumberland: Boy on the beach, 1926-1947 ……………………......…....12 Chapt. 2. Exploring the Lake District, 1939-1944 ……………………………….............28 Chapt. 3. A Cambridge student, 1944-1947 …………………………………….…........56 Chapt. 4. Falkland Islands dependencies Survey, 1945-1950 ………………............…74 Chapt. 5. To sea in a tub: Voyage of the John Biscoe, 1947-1947 ………………............82 Chapt. 6. Signy Island: settling in, 1947-1948 ………………………………………....118 Chapt. 7. Signy Island: Life on base, 1947-50 ………………………………………. ...146 Chapt. 8. Signy Island: Sea ice and weather, 1947-1950 ……………………………...174 Chapt. 9. Coronation Island: More distant journeys, 1948 and 1949 …………….. ..194 Chapt. 10. Signy Island: Earth Sciences, communications and ships, 1948-1949 .....224 Chapt. 11. Elephant seals, fieldwork, 1948-1950 ……………………………………...244 Chapt. 12. Field work on other seals, l948-1950 ……………………………………...266 Chapt. 13. The Signy Island birds, 1948-1950 ……………………………………….. 284 Chapt. 14. Cambridge and the Falklands Island fur seal survey, 1950-1951 ……. .314 Chapt. 15. The island of South Georgia: Summer and autumn, 1951/52 ………... 344 Chapt. 16. Spring in South Georgia, 1951 …………………………………………….366 Chapt. 17. Cambridge and the Arctic, 52-53 …………………………………………398 Chapt. 18. New ideas for management and conservation, 1952-1953 ……………. 412 Chapt. 19. Whaling voyage on F/F Balaena, 1953/54 ……………………………... 430 Chapt. 20. Marriage and young family: Surrey idyll, 1954-1961 ………………....460 Chapt. 21. Among Oceanographers, but cast ashore!, 1953-1961 ………………… 466 Chapt. 22. Ron mor: The great seal, 1958-1963 ……………………………………… 480 2
Page 1: LARGE ANIMALS AND WIDE HORIZONS: AD
Page 7 and 8: Introduction The Concise Oxford Dic
Page 9 and 10: y insurance assessors, were new to
Page 11: unique. That has been my good fortu
Page 14 and 15: went to live in Western Australia;
Page 16 and 17: not leaving her much when he died.
Page 18 and 19: Dad exacted retribution for such wr
Page 20 and 21: I was very fond of my father but, t
Page 22 and 23: highlights of the holiday was alway
Page 24 and 25: If we were lucky we would see a few
Page 26 and 27: dentists for many years to come. At
Page 28 and 29: didn't have much time for cricket,
Page 30 and 31: on his car radio two days later, as
Page 32 and 33: quite heavy traffic. We settled int
Page 34 and 35: a good photographer and started me
Page 36 and 37: Under great oak trees snowdrops, pr
Page 38 and 39: illustrated with my pen-and-ink dra
Page 40 and 41: ut was playing rugby again a week l
Page 42 and 43: won a large number of decorative sc
Page 44 and 45: of a dog perhaps . . . " So clearly
Page 46 and 47: celebrity, for his avant-garde art.
Page 48 and 49: One day in April l942 I cycled on m
Page 50 and 51: Another day I particularly remember
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Progress of the war as seen from Pa
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wounded by mortar shrapnel - abdomi
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service was deferred for students u
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a limited membership of about twelv
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experienced and some of them had a
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his delightful pen and ink drawings
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and classification, taught by [Paul
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text, had acquired a collection of
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Hancock had been a famous Northumbe
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was closed to all traffic, the Back
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The glorious Summer of l947 Meanwhi
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Chapter 4 Falkland Islands Dependen
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provoke me, but I took a dislike to
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Surgeon Commander E W Bingham, RN,
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that the ship would be ready to sai
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Chapter 5 To Sea in a Tub: Voyage o
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I had a very good night's sleep, de
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when I went down to my bunk as the
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silver fish, perhaps 4-5 ft long wa
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Captain's launch came alongside and
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frigate petrel or white-faced storm
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Oh! I love to waddle waddle On the
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sisters of uncharity the things tha
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Another fine day came, with it a bi
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eported for the Bosun's party and w
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cruised alongside the ship for a fe
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the only real seaman in the crew. H
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starboard three miles away. It had
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William, which looked rocky enough.
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A short walk down the road led us t
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several cassettes and Dennis Hallet
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which was attached to a slimy grey
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oomed FIDS base hut. We were surrou
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Chapter 6 Signy Island : Settling i
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Before going further some backgroun
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surrounding the high ground on near
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lack-ridged "helmet" between Marsha
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Settling in A new way of life. The
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torquoise evening sky and the peaks
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spacious loft above for storage pur
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thicken. All day as we worked the s
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following the coast. In my inexperi
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Rocks, Ralph rowing and Derek perch
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It proved impossible to travel alon
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Another day in the middle of May be
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sketches (the Twins and the Cuillin
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On another fine day at the end of A
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Chapter 7 Signy Island: Life on Bas
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stove. A galvanized hip bath was a
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the trouser problem was not yet sol
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might have to get up during the nig
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kill and post mortem some seals for
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one morning. It was a large nail an
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These kinds of minor problems recur
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For sledging, a winter activity des
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on weight, although we were doing h
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The long winter evenings when, it h
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condensing provided an artificial h
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photographs. My agreement with the
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idge was silhouetted against a dark
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of soft snow over ice, which requir
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Chapter 8 Signy Island: Sea ice and
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all morning and intermittently duri
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some of the roofing-felt on the lab
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through the day until at 8 o’cloc
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y 6 enclosing some large tabular be
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north to south. The wind remained b
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efore I had remarked how vivid were
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patches. The sun came through for i
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A very fine morning now came, with
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straight-edge of purple cloud to th
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Chapter 9 Coronation Island: More d
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the interior. In the rocks of the o
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get some rock specimens from the so
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delicate colouring - in parts a ver
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The only Kandahar bindings we had w
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On 24 August we went through the sl
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dawn. We were tired that morning, t
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loud explosion, which rattled him.
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penguins but I saw no more birds. T
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11.Scientific: 1 collecting jar (70
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cooking took quite a time as water
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above sea level. The rock walls ros
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and made our way down the West side
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eak so we decided to travel back al
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one we called the ‘Finsterarhorn
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Chapter 10 Earth Sciences, Communic
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“The King Penguin” On re-readin
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petrel in the vicinity of Alexander
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the mail and two men who were to jo
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We said goodbye to Jim, and John st
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and learnt she was due at Signy nex
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheri
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enlarging photographs when the gene
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One day I had a long R/T chat with
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Then at the end of February just ov
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Chapter 11 Elephant seals, fieldwor
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We finished the census at 6.15 pm w
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seals on two beaches, for killing,
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and groans as the ice took the stra
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A few days later, Midwinter's Day,
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edge. Next day five cow elephants w
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About 4.30 pm I counted a bull and
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The cows squabbled among themselves
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A 'super' bull - the ultimate alpha
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ut she was unwilling and humped awa
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on the fringing cows, which were mo
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Chapter 12 Field work on other seal
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for a specimen, so Ralph and Derek
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number of Weddells, mostly pregnant
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then move on a few yards and repeat
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and 118 around the Gourlay Peninsul
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probably about two weeks old and st
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On 28 September we visited Gerd Isl
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Then one day I skied right around S
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Four days later I went over to Dryi
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Chapter 13 The Signy Island Birds,
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number and the address of the Colon
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came to within six feet of us, then
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chattering and stooping at the intr
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As a result of the prevailing low t
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contained no floes from the pack -
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fishy flavour and the meat was very
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ubbing; another black bird came up
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giants were in pairs at most nests
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about. As the New Year was approach
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I went over the plateau on 28 Janua
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slowly and heavily than the other b
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There were Giants and a few Dominic
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whether the darker birds were older
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I received a message from Bill Slad
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Chapter 14 Cambridge and the Falkla
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lighthouse, on a steady old horse
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island on which Santos stands. I we
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meant that I would take at least th
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PhD on cetacean locomotion, having
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that I had developed in me througho
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those pre-jet days. It was my very
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assorted crowd aboard and I wondere
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and white markings. Volunteer Rocks
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the islands in the old days: the tr
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extremity of the island and there w
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and West ends there are areas of lo
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Island and Beaver Island, and even
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to struggle overboard and were scat
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see their every movement against th
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Chapter 15 The Island of South Geor
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Radio Station was established in 19
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strip of blubber. The whole process
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coloration of the humpbacks, the ba
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An important part of my research wa
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On Good Friday, I woke at 6 o’clo
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Albatros right in to the wreck, whi
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The Brothers rocks) silhouetted aga
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the water's edge the gunner shot it
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It was now really dirty weather - A
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ace to catch up and we boarded her
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Chapter 16 Spring in South Georgia:
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Next day began as a glorious mornin
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At harem 8b (north of the main one)
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left their pups. I saw no pups bein
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latest news from King Edward Point:
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deep dissection at the base of the
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y some bulls early in the season? T
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On 3 October in area 6 bull A now h
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There was a detached group of 14 co
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ull coming out of the sea at one ha
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esearchers. We had some difficulty
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This both in terms of observing the
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The whaling season had started and
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Another sealing voyage. Shortly aft
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elephant seal, which have anything
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voyages, with the blubber 'burning'
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Chapter 17 Cambridge and the Arctic
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included as part of my thesis, beca
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plankton hauling on the first two s
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past. It was very clear water into
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was measuring the fish on deck duri
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We had 13 days holiday, inclusive o
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contained within a large hull desig
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Chapter 18 New ideas for Management
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eeding season for optimum condition
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parent vessel. When carcasses were
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catching to the breeding season. Fo
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with the exception of division II,
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population. This could only be a cr
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Estimates of total biomass at birth
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Of the six divisional collections o
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was probably the first time that su
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Chapter 19 A whaling voyage on Bala
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By the evening of 8 November we had
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the Southern Ocean. It turned a lit
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didn't reach the ship until 5.0 o
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more hectic. I spent the rest of th
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spermaceti, and the sperm oil likew
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was like that and reminded me of th
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actually it was quite early. It was
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arches. The operation was repeated
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them for later examination, but the
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around us now were huge gleaming wh
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A few days later I was due to go ou
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would be safer to remain on the bri
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predominantly under water for an ho
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I printed a few photographs for Cap
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Chapter 20 Marriage and Young Famil
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little odd and constrained at first
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of Edinburgh. The lecture I gave, o
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Chapter 21 Among Oceanographers, bu
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41. A new headquarters Building had
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I have mentioned that there were te
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always had Fraser as senior author)
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the north. Lots of gaily-coloured l
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- nearly half of the time available
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moving because there were no featur
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Chapter 22 Ron mor : the Great Seal
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along the coast. Many of the old Le
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and an inch thick, slightly soft, b
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The procedure was to approach the p
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earranging the weighting stones and
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hard work and we had to lower the p
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