All night and to-day wild gusts of wind shaking the hut; long, ragged, twisted wind-cloud in the middle heights. A watery moon shining through a filmy cirrostratus – the outlook wonderfully desolate with its ghostly illumination and patchy clouds of flying snow drift. It would be hardly possible for a tearing, raging wind to make itself more visible. At Wind Vane Hill the anemometer has registered 68 miles between 9 and 10 A.M. – a record. The gusts at the hut frequently exceed 70 m.p.h. – luckily the temperature is up to 5º, so that there is no hardship for the workers outside.

“Frank Debenham grinding Geological specimens. July 12th 1911”

“Frank Debenham grinding Geological specimens. July 12th 1911”

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