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Excerpt from Report by Professor D'arcy Thompson on His Mission to the Behring Sea in 1896: Dated March 4, 1897
This rookery occupies a stretch of rough shore, strewn with great blocks of basalt, for the space of about yards nest of the village, on the north shore of the island.
Behind the more or less narrow beach rise low cliffs, broken here and there by gullies giving easy access to the gently mping plateau above, the main resort of the young seals and bachelors. Such a configuration of low beach and higher background conveniently approached is characteristic of the majority of the rookeries on both islands. In this case a deep gully at the east (cf. Photograph No. 95) and another about 300 yards beyond the west end of the breeding rookery form the main ascents to the hauling-grounds. The westernmost gully of the actual rookery (photograph No. 941) was, we were told, an important ascent to the hauling-grounds ten or fifteen years ago.
The harems occupy the beach in a line at first sight continuous, but interrupted by five short breaks amounting in the aggregate to a space of about 150 yards. In the two westernmost patches. Of the rookery the harems run back from the beach up two convenient gullies to a distance in the westernmost case of about 50 yards from the shore in the early part of the season.
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