Baffin Basin, 184; ...Bay, 6, 50, 60, 71, 



184; ...Island, 50, 55, 60, 71 

 Baffin-Greenland Rise, 176, 184 

 Baghdad, 12 

 Bahamas Is., 80 

 Bahia, 116 

 Bahrein I., 12 

 Baiae, 138, 141, 143 

 Balearic Is., 130, 138 

 Baltic Sea, 7, 21, 60, 78, 131, 176, 184; 



bars in, 232; rising land round, 227; 



salinity of, 182 

 Banda Sea, 7, 180 

 Banks, Sir Joseph, 40 

 Barbosa, Diogo, 27, 30 

 Bardo Museum, Tunis, 162 

 Barents Sea, 7, 59, 60, 71, 184 

 Bar formation, in tideless waters, 232 

 Barnacles, 88, 92 

 Barnesky, Al, U.S.N. diver, 149 

 Barrier, The, (Ross), 51-2 

 Barrow Point, 71 ; ... Sea Valley, 72 

 Barrow, Sir John, 46 

 Basra, 12 

 Batavia, 40, 43 



Bathyscaphes, 13, 121, 192, 199, 201, 234 

 Beach, formations of, 227-30; materials 



of, 226, 232; raised, 227 

 Beachy Head, 232 

 Bear I., 243 

 Beaucaire, Dr., 145 

 Beaufort Basin, 184; ...Sea, 6, 61, 71, 



184 

 Beirut, 152 



Belerium, (Land's End), 22, 23 

 Belgrade, see Singidunum 

 Bellingshausen Sea, 175 

 Bellot Strait, 48 

 Bends, the, 156 



Bengal, Bay of, 7, 186; ...Plateau, 186 

 Benghazi, see Bernice 

 Benoit, Prof. Fernand, 134, 145 

 Benthos, 92 



Berghaus, Heinrich, 183 

 Bering, Captain Vitus, 44, 46 

 Bering Sea, 6-7, 43, 70, 71, 180, 184; 



. . .Strait, 6-7, 42-3, 44-6, 48, 53, 61, 



66, 71, 180, 184 

 Bermuda Is., 42, 78, 116, 189 

 Bernice, 138 



Biology, Marine, 76, 112ff 

 Bireme, 132 

 Biscay Abyssal Plain, 197; ...Bay of, 



6,21, 22, 98, 120, 138, 176, 197 

 Bivalves, 88 



Black Mud Canyon, 194, 197 

 Blackpool, 230 



Black Sea, 7, 129, 131, 139, 182, 210 

 Blagden, Sir C, on Gulf Stream, 183,185 

 "Blake," U.S.S., 118 

 Bligh, Captain William, 44 

 Blondel, Paul, watchmaker, Amsterdam, 



149 

 Blue Grotto, Capri, 141, 143 

 Board of Trade Meteorological Dept., 



185 



Bodrum, 139, 168 



Boethus of Chalcedon, sculptor, 162 



Bomba, 139 



Bone, 115 



Booth, Felix, backer of John Ross, 48 



Boothia, Felix, 48, 53, 54; . . .Gulf of, 184 



Bordeaux, see Burdigala 



Bores, tidal, 219-20 



Borneo, 28 



Bosporus, 131, 210 



Boston, Lincolnshire, 231 



Boston, Mass., Board of Customs, 203 



Botany Bay, 40, 43 



Bothnia, Gulf of, 184 



"Bounty," H.M.S., 44 



Bourbon, Prince Luigi of, 142 



Bow/den, K.F., author, 214-23 



Boyle, Robert, 179 



Braunton Burrows, 233 



Brazilian Basin, 176 



Brazil, land reclamation in, 233 



Breakers, 225 



Bridlington, 231 



Bristle worm, 86-7 



Bristol Channel, 215, 217 



Britain, 22, 25; described by Pytheas, 22; 

 tin industry of, 22-3 



Britannia, 130 



British Association, 49 



British Columbia, 44 



British Isles, 21, 99, 189; currents round, 

 202 



British Museum, 147 



Brittany, 22, 101, 197 



Bromley Plateau, 176 



Brooke, Mid. J.M., U.S.N., 93, 177 



Broussard, Henri, 145, 162 



Brussels, 1st international Meteorolog- 

 ical conference at, 1835, 185 



"Bulldog," H.M.S., 115 



Bulmer, Ian, 166 



Burdigala, 130 



Burton, Maurice, author, 76-121 



Bushire, 12 



Byblus, 131 



Byzantium, 131, 139 



Cables, submarine, damage by ocean 

 currents to, 195; development of 

 sounding techniques for, 177; survey 

 of routes for, 177 



Cabral, 26 



Cadiz, see Gades and San Lucar 



Caesarea, see Cherchel 



Caesar, Julius, 214 



Cagliari, see Carales 



Cagnat, Rene, 159 



Calandruccio, Salvatore, naturalist, 79 



Calcium, 238; . . .carbonate, 196 



California, 225, 228, 230; sardine fishery 

 of, 210 



Caligula, Bridge of, 142 



"Calypso," yacht, 164 



Cambridge Underwater Exploration 

 Group, 1958-9, 154 ft 



275 



