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South Marble Island
Glacier Bay, Alaska
On July 5 Mr. Wasselburg and I
made another attempt to investigate
the bird life on South Marble Island.
We left camp shortly after 8 o'clock in
the morning on the launch which
took us the first 9 miles of our journey.
The rest of the way was thru thick
floating ice. We managed to crowd
the canoe over or thru the ice and
reached the island shortly before noon.
The island, as indicated by the name
is a large mound of marble rock, which
is for the most part smooth and
steeply sloping to the water's edge. There
are a few alders and a kind of
large-leafed willows growing in wet
places. Alto the island is only about
1 mile long it has several little streams
trickling down it. The highest part of
the island is perhaps 100 ft.
Glaucous-winged Gulls and Pelagic
common terns were the chief inhabitants
while Pidgeon Guillemots and