In the afternoon, in the northeastern part of Erebus and Terror Gulf, we visited beautiful Paulet Island. This small island is a volcanic structure with a very distinct cinder cone shape and a flooded crater on the north side below the 1,158-foot high (350 m) peak. Paulet Island is a very important historic site. because it was here that Capt. Larsen and his crew from the ANTARCTIC (part of the Nordenskjold Swedish South Polar Expedition of 1902-1904) were forced to over-winter in 1904 when their ship was crushed in the ice. We visited the actual remains of the stone hut that they lived in more than a century ago, rediscovered by our very own Tom Ritchie. This is also a very important breeding site for Adelie penguins and contains more than 100,000 nesting pairs at the peak of nesting season, as well as colonies of blue-eyed shags, snow petrels, and snowy sheathbills. We also saw plenty of fur seals, and the beach was covered with bergy bits while large icebergs floated just offshore. Several of us had a nice hike back over a small saddle in the cone of the peak, where we saw a lone chinstrap penguin mingling with a few Adelies. As usual for this trip, the wind was blowing quite briskly (although not raining this time).