McCormick visits Uranie Bay, shooting a black-headed gull and four terns.

A party from Terror hauls the seine net but does not catch any fish.

21 November 1842: Cunningham skins birds all day.

20 November 1842: Divine service takes place on both ships.

19 November 1842: Cunningham's party visits the penguin rookery, but finds most of the eggs too far gone to be worth collecting. After beating twenty miles against an unfavourable wind, they return to Terror at 10:30PM.

A party is helping bring the Governor Halkett's cargo ashore.

Cunningham is preparing for another trip to the penguin rookery.

18 November 1842: Erebus's small whaleboat comes adrift and is driven into the rocks by the tide.

McCormick experiments with the effects of hydrocyanic acid on three penguins, to determine the "most humane method of ending their existence".

17 November 1842: Terror's sailmaker is repairing the main topgallant sail.

One party is planting shrubs in the burial ground, while another brings the Governor Halkett's cargo ashore.

Terror's sailmaker is repairing the fore topgallant sail.

16 November 1842: Fine weather.

Cunningham's party returns to Terror at 9PM, having spent five hours beating up to the ship against a stiff breeze.

Gibson and McCormick make an excursion to Green Bank at the head of the sound.

Cunningham notes, "There are at least ten thousand penguins on the Island, all laying close together with their nests entirely unprotected. They make a most dolefull noise but will not move off their 'Nests' without being Shoved".

Cunningham sets out for the penguin rookery on Kidney Island in Terror's cutter. He and the crew collect four thousand eggs.

15 November 1842: A party of sailors are planting shrubs from Hermite Island in the burial ground.

One of the Governor Halkett's passengers, Thomas Gibson, is an old shipmate of McCormick's; he accompanies McCormick on a shooting expedition to Salvador Bay, and they dine together.

The Governor Halkett, an English barque with a cargo of oil, arrives from Sydney leaking badly. Ross sends the crews of both ships to assist with getting her cargo ashore and looking for the leak.

14 November 1842: The portable observatory is brought ashore.

Cunningham receives a letter from Hobart Town.

The ships anchor at Port Louis at 6PM. Lieutenant Sibbald reports to Ross that the party at the observatory are in good health, and hands over despatches and letters from England.

13 November 1842: In the morning, the wind blows from the westward, and the ships spend twelve hours beating up Berkeley Sound to Port Louis.

The ships anchor off East Falkland's Cape Pembroke at midnight, waiting for daylight to navigate Berkeley Sound.

12 November 1842: The ships sight Beauchene Island in the morning.

11 November 1842: The ships spend all day taking soundings on the Burdwood Bank. McCormick records the depth of the shoals as between twenty-six and eighty fathoms, while Cunningham records them as between fifty and seventy fathoms.

Ross is very unwell, and McCormick attends him.

10 November 1842: The wind fades to a dead calm in the morning.

9 November 1842: Foul weather, with thick rain and the wind blowing directly against the ships' intended course.

Heavy rain begins in the evening and continues all night.

Cunningham notes, "What may be called a fine day here."

8 November 1842: The ships proceed close-hauled against an unfavourable breeze.

The ships sight a barque in the afternoon.

Around 9AM, the ships round Cape Horn at a distance of three or four miles from the coast.

7 November 1842: The ships make sail at 6:30AM to return to the Falkland Islands.

Two Fuegians visit Erebus in the afternoon. Ross gives them two small saws and some fishhooks, and McCormick measures their heights.

"Quite a Summers day," according to Cunningham.

Divine service takes place on both ships.

6 November 1842: The final day of observing the height of the tide every half hour.

5 November 1842: The ships are stowing firewood and preparing for sea.

4 November 1842: Fine weather.

Ross and Crozier explore the coast outside the harbour and collect a number of goose eggs.

The carpenters disassemble the portable observatory.

3 November 1842: Terror's sails are bent on and her topgallant masts sent up.

McCormick goes ashore for a final excursion, shooting two yellow-breasted finches and a kelp goose.

2 November 1842: The ships are preparing for sea.

McCormick visits a group of Fuegians at North Bay; one man accompanies him for much of his walk along the shore.

The final set of magnetic observations ashore are taken.

1 November 1842: Fine weather.