Jomich 1953 46 Cobino Notes june 25 Point Barrow, Alaska of the pressure ridge and everywhere the pack buckled, throwing up blocks and mounds on the main ice surface. This constitutes a first step in the great breakup. At the present time the open water is about one mile off the village and 4 miles off the base, and several miles wide. What we need now is a good east wind to shove the ice away from the land. The water is gradually warming and the melt will be rapid. In some years the ice pack, the main polar cap, recedes as 200 to 300 miles from Barrow. In other years it may move in and out all summer, rather broken up and not com- pletely impassable to the ships that ply the waters in summer. july 10 The Harvard archeologists have arrived, Dr. W.K. Carter, his wife, and two students. They have been busy excavating at the midden which are slowly crumbling into the sea at the end of Point Barrow. They work out areas a meter square and dig down to permafrost, let it thaw, and dig on some more until the original beach gravel is reached. This is usually only a foot or two below the surface. They recover an amazing amount of artifacts, mainly broken bone items,