294 INDEX 



Thermometer, The deep-sea, 30 

 Thetis, The, 278 

 Thirkill, Launcelot, 4 

 Thomusine, The, 16 

 Thorne, Robert, 5 

 Tiger, 126 

 Tigress, The, 247 

 Toll, Baron E., 126 

 Torell, Otto, 43 

 Trent, H. M.S., 33 

 Treurenberg Bay, 40 

 Tripe-de-roche, 156 

 Tschirikof, Alexei, 131 

 Tundra, The, 86, 113 

 Turnagain, Point, 155, 167 

 Tyndall Glacier, 244 



Umivik, 262 



Union, The (boat), 157, 158 

 United States, The, 239 

 Upernivik, 232 



Valorous, H.M.S., 248 

 Veer, Gerrit de, 10, 49 

 Vega, The, 87 

 Victoria, Cape, 211 

 Victoria Land, 168 



,, Sea, Queen, 75 



Strait, 206 

 Victory, The, 194 

 Victory, Point, 212 

 Vinland, 3 



Vlamingh, Willem de, 62 

 Vrangel', Ferdinand, 108 



Wager River, 190 

 Waigatz Island, 7 

 Wainwright Inlet, 139 

 Walden Island, 40 

 Walker Bay, 176 

 Walnut Shell, The (boat), 157, 159 

 Walrus, 12, 13, 20, 31, 34, 57, 73, 

 82, 88, 93, 101 



Walsingham, Francis, 224, 229, 231 

 Washington Irving Island, 250 

 Welden, Captain, 13 

 Wellington Channel, 180 

 Wentzel, 150, 151, 154 

 West England, 220 

 Weyprecht, K., 64, 272 

 Whale fishery, The, 15, 17 

 Whale, Greenland, 14, 15, 31, 265 

 Whale Island, 148 

 Whale, White, 88, 148, 188 

 Whaling trade begins, 15 

 White Man's Island, 223 

 White Sea, The, 6 

 White Shirt, 2 

 Whymper, Edward, 266 



Frederick, 142 



Wiggins, Joseph, 87 

 Wijde Bay, 17 

 Wilberforce Falls, The, 155 

 Wilczek Island, 66 

 William Laud, King, 163, 214 

 William, The, 8 

 Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 5 

 Windward, The, 76, 103 

 Winter Harbour, 174, 181 



Island, 192 

 Winthont, The, 10 

 Wollaston Land, 158 

 Wolstenholme, Cape, 234 

 Wolverine, 144 

 Women Islands, The, 233 

 Wraugell, Ferdinand von, 108 

 Wrangell Island, 116, 141 



Yakuts, The, 115 

 Yalmal, 85 

 Yenesei, The, 85 

 Ymer, The, 87 



Young, Allen, 75, 116, 208, 213 

 Young's Foreland, 14 

 Yugor Strait, 8 

 Yukon, Fort, 142, 144 

 The, 142 



