POLAR RECORD

EDITOR; BERNARD STONEHOUSE

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: KATE GORDON-ROGERS

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: T. E. ARMSTRONG, D. DREWRY, V. GALPIN C. A. HOLLAND, H. G. R. KING, C. W. M. SWITHINBANK

Vol 22, No 140. May 1985

CONTENTS

ARTICLES: Activities on the King George Island group, South Shetland Islands, . By R. K. Headland and P. L. Keage .... 475 Diverting Soviet rivers; some possible repercussions for the Ocean. By H. Cattle 485 The United Nations' Study on Antarctica, 1984. By P. J. Beck . . 499 The Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (MIZEX) 1984; Scott Polar Research Institute participation. By P. Wadhams 505 Profile: Albert Borlase Armitage. By D. W. H. Walton . . . . 511

NOTES: Place names on the Nordaustlandet ice caps, Svalbard. By J. A. Dowdeswell and D. J. Drewry 519 The , 1984. By T. E. Armstrong 523 Survey of Inaccessible Island, Tristan da Cunha group. By C. P. Siddall 528 The Crimean War in the Arctic; a further note. By I. R. Stone . . 531 The Falkland Islands Journal. By D. W. H. Walton .... 537 International workshop on the , 7-13 January 1985. By M. W. Holdgate. 538

REVIEWS: The Alaskan Beaufort Sea: ecosystems and environments. Barnes, P. W., Schell, D. M. and Reimnitz, E. (editors). (P. Wadhams) ... 540 The living tundra. Chernov, Ju. I. (R. E. Longton) .... 541 The Antarctic circumpolar ocean. Deacon, Sir G. (P. Wadhams) . . 541 Extending the rafters: interdisciplinary approaches to Iroquois studies. Foster, M. K., Campisi, J. and Mithun, M. (editors). (B. Cox) 542 Australia's Antarctic policy options. Harris, S. (editor). (P. L. Keage) 543

17 POL 1 Scott of the Antarctic and Cardiff. Johnson, A. M. (H. G. R. King) 544 The : Arctic Straits. Pharand, D. (T. E. Armstrong) 545 Dynamics of ice cover. Timokhov, L. A. (editor). (V. A. Squire) . . 546 Permafrost; Fourth International Conference proceedings. University of Alaska, National Academy of Sciences. (D. Sugden) . . . 546 Artie underwater operations; medical and operational aspects of diving activities in arctic conditions. Rey, L. (editor). (V. A. Squire) . . 548 An Arctic diary: the journal of Captain George Comer in 1903-05. Ross, W. G. (editor). (A. B. Dickinson) ... 548 The Bering fur seal dispute 1885-1911: A monograph on the maritime history of Alaska. Williams, G. D. (S. G. Brown) .... 550 Sons and seals; a voyage to the ice. Wright, G. (S. Anderson) . . 550 Brief reviews 551

IN BRIEF: White whales trapped in sea ice; Volcanic eruption on Heard Island; East airfields; Icebird; a new polar re-supply vessel; Arctic haze conference 552

OBITUARY: Sir George Deacon; Col-Gen Mikhail M. Gromov; Trevor A. Harwood; John H. Saffery; Amory H. Waite; Lt-Col A. B. Whatman . . 554

ANNUAL REPORT 561

SCAR Bulletin, No 80: Eighteenth meeting of SCAR; appendices: 1 Working Group on Biology 577 3 Working Group on Glaciology 595 4 Working Group on Human Biology and Medicine .... 598 5 Working Group on Logistics 600 6 Working Group on Upper Atmosphere Physics 604 7 Groups of Specialists on Antarctic Sea Ice and Antarctic Climate Research 610 8 Report of the Finance Committee 611