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Seals had come up through the pressure ridges near Erebus Ice Tongue (McMurdo Sound). Enroute to Petzel Fish Huts (fish researchers) at Cape Evans.
The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus, meaning "hooked-nosed sea pig")
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the grey seal breeds in several colonies on and around the coasts. Notably large colonies are at Donna Nook (Lincolnshire)
The name is supposedly to be that of a ship called 'The Donna', part of the Spanish Armada, which sank off the Nook (a small headland) in 1588.