Burton Island (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

1947-1955
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Michael
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Re: Burton Island (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Voyage for 1951 has been completed. Many thanks, in order of the months they transcribed, are due to:
  1. Stephen Weather
  2. mecordova
  3. cquaye
  4. Vic
  5. andylikesice
  6. orchidleaves; and,
  7. Pommystuart
You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There were a few people mentioned, and you can see them here.

These are the stats for the 1951 Voyages for Burton Island;
Weather ElementRecords
DirT
7651
Kts
7771
Baro
7981
Dry
7957
Wet
7941
Weather
7927
Low
5067
Mid
1758
High
369
Ceil
7931
From
6309
Amount
7304
VisM
7919
Total
83885

Ice ElementRecords
Ice_Log
213
Total
213

Burton_Island travelled a total of 29545 miles. She actually went farther, but the log for May was missing and, near the end of May she set out for Pearl Harbor, arriving there in early June.
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That was a long way up North.
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