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Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) / Morning navigation to Booth Island's Salptrire Bay, a 3 km (1.9 mi) wide bay indenting the north shore of Booth Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It was charted by the third French Antarctic expedition (190305) under the command of Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Charcot established the expedition's winter base at Port Charcot in 1904. A cairn at Port Charcot, with a wooden pillar and a plaque inscribed with the names of the members of the French expedition, has been designated a Historic Site or Monument, by a Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. In the late morning, due to excessive ice, we took a zodiac cruise of Salptrire Bay (650356S 640108W) along the west side of Booth Island and waited for better conditions in the afternoon to make a landing at Port Charcot.