We had scarcely got our hut up at
the winter quarters, Cape Denison,
when we had our first bad blizzard.
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Little did we imagine, when
we landed in calm sunshine,
that we had established ourselves
in the most tempest-ridden
spot on the face of the globe.
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We developed a technique
of walking about, but any
routine work beyond shelter became
a struggle against tempest and frostbite.
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For the whole year the average wind
velocity was 48.5 miles an hour. The worst
day was in May, when the wind reached
90.1 miles continuously for an hour.