List of Illustrations 



Challenger Frontispiece 



Rounding Cape Harrigan. Voyage North — July 1932 J'^^^^S P°9^ 1° 



Pan Ice. Voyage North — July 1932 10 



Nain, Labrador 1 1 



The Carenage, St. George's, Grenada 26 



Lieut. -Commander Baker and Officer's Steward Holgate starting off for a 



day's surveying 27 



Petty-Officer Stevenson feeding the dog teams 27 



Nutak — half way to Hebron 42 



Hebron — the journey's end 43 



Renatus buildinsi snowhouses c8 



A sur\'ey camp between pages ^8-59 



Springtime travel between pages ^^8-59 



Buck Baker and Dennis Deane going out from Nain to meet Challenger, 



July 1934 fo^^S P^a^ S9 



Main Street, Hillsborough, Carriacou, Grenadines 74 



The surveyor's topographic task in the Grenadines 7£- 



In the floating dock — Bermuda 90 



The new furnaces arrive in Bermuda 9 1 



Christmas — 1937. Alongside the new wharf at Trinidad 106 



Fishermen at Port Said 107 



Passing through the Suez Canal 1 2 2 



Anchored off Muscat i 2 3 



Sheikh Khamis Bin Hilal approaches with his 'Army' 138 



Commander Baker with Sheikh Khamis Bin Hilal and his Brothers 1 3 8 



Anchored alone at the head of Hvalfjord, June 1940 139 



Making Sail i ^4 

 Camouflaged — Sheemess, May 1942. Before sailing to join the Eastern 



Fleet iss 



Rigging a survey beacon on deck 1 70 



Laying a moored survey beacon 171 



Challenger's echo sounding launch. — Winter Harbour, Vancouver Island 186 



Coming alongside — Pearl Harbour 187 



