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1. Code
1959
General Account
29 July - cot -
2045 - made camp on the left limit on
a terrace about 1 mile upriver from
Sentinel Hill - near an area of numerous
ice wedges along the cut bank of the
river. Camp #4.
30 July
Colville - near Sentinel Hill - spent the
day investigating the tundra between
the Colville and Kogosekrovak rivers.
Beautiful, rolling upland type tundra
similar to that around the Mlade
River coalmine.
31 July
Sentinel Hill to Ocean Point -
1220 - departed #4 - clearing skies
for the first time since we left
Uniat.
1400 - at the mouth of the Kogosekrovak
2000 - made camp on shore across from
mouth of the Nikiaikrovak River.
Skies were mostly clear all day.
1 August
Nikiaikrovak to Ocean Point -
1200 - departed camp #5
2100 - camped on a silt bar on the
right limit a few miles above Ocean
Point.
2 August
Nikiaikrovak to Ocean Point -
1330 - departed camp #6 - overcast sky
with strong SW wind blowing.