North-Eastern Atlantic Basin, 176, 184 



Nortlieast Passage, 59 



North Fiji Basin, 180 



Nortti Island, (N.Z.), 43 



North Pacific Ocean, 6-7, 199 



North Pole, 50, 60, 71, 184; James Clark 



Ross' expedition towards ... in 1824, 



47; U.S.S. Nautilus ai, 73 

 North Sea, 6, 21, 60, 71, 78, 130, 176, 184, 



231 ; sinking shores of . . ., 227; fides 



of, 222 

 North Somerset I., 54 

 North West Christmas Island Ridge, 180 

 North-Western Atlantic Basin, 176 

 Northwest Passage, 44, 54 

 Norway, 19, 99, 191 

 Norwegian Basin, 176, 184; . . . Sea, 60, 



184 

 Nova Scotia, 215 

 Novaya Zemlya Is., 59, 60, 71 

 Nuclear power, 66-7 



Oahu, 70 



Oak Ridge, Tenn., nuclear plant, 66 



"Observations and Experiments about 



the Saltness of theSea," Boyle, 1673, 



182 

 Oceanography, world nnap, 6-7 

 Oceanography, National Institute of, 



175, 224 

 Octopus, 87-8 

 Oder, R., 21 

 Odessus, 131 



"Odyssey," Homer, 133, 158 

 Off-shore banks, dry at low water, 231 

 Okhotsk, Sea of, 7, 71, 180, 184, 217 

 Old Harry Rock, Swanage, 232 

 Old Red Sandstone, 232 

 Oman, Gulf of, 186 

 Ooze, calcareous, diatom, globigerina, 



pteropod, radiolarian, silicious, 95 

 Operation "Sunshine," 70 

 Ophir, 128 

 Oporto, 22 



Orcas, see Shetland Is. 

 Oregon, 228 

 Orfordness, 229 

 Orka, (Duncansby Head?), 23 

 Orne, R., tidal bore in, 220 

 Oslo, 56, 59, 60 

 Ostia, 127, 138, 159 

 Ostracods, 88 

 Otoliths, 104 

 Otranto, see Hydruntum 

 Otranto, Strait of, 133 

 Ouse, R., 231 



Outmarsh, of Lincolnshire, 231 

 Oxygen, supply of to diver, 136 

 Oysters, 88; as agents in conditioning 



sea water, 238 



Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, 181 



Pacific Ocean, 28, 31 , 42, 43, 50, 71 , 1 1 6-7, 



176, 184, 200, 206-7, 212; coast of N. 



America, tides on, 215; co-tidal lines, 

 220-1; deposits of, 94, 95, fertility of, 

 244, 245; oceanography of, 180, 181; 

 surface currents and temperatures, 

 204*, 205*, 206 



Paestum, 138, 145 



Palaeopolis, (Parthenope), 141, 142 



Palawan, I., 28 



Palermo Stone, 128 



Palliser, Captain Sir Hugh, R.N., 37 



Palmer Peninsula, Antarctica, 53 



Panama Canal, 215 



Pangaea, 11 



Pan, statue of, 162 



Pantelleria, I., 130, 133, 138 



Papal Declaration, boundary line of, 29 



Parazoa, 81 



Paris, 14 



Parry, Sir W.E., 47, 52, 53 



Patagonia, 29, 32 



Patara, 131, 133 



Pausanias, 140, 146 



Pearl Harbor, 70 



Peary, Admiral Robert E., U.S.N,, 

 North Pole, 1909, 47 



Peckel, Andreas, 166 



Pelecypoda, 88 



Peloponnesian War, 129 



Peloponnessus, 131 



"Pembroke," H.M.S., 37 



Pendulum, illustrates rotation of earth, 

 183 



Penikese I., Buzzards Bay, 113 



Pennsylvania, University of, 168 



Pens, sea, 83 



Pepper, Tom, 169 



Peridians, 109 



Pernambuco, 31 



Perseus, statue of, 160 



Persian Gulf, 7, 13, 12-13, 182, 186; former 

 coast lines of, according to some 

 authorities, 12*; thought to be land 

 in Pleistocene times, 13* 



Perth, Australia, 168 



Peru, 210 



Peru-Chile Trench, 176, 181 



Peterhead, 50 



Peter the Great, 44 



Peutinger, itineraries, 135 



Phaestus, 128, 131 



Pharos, I., 126, 139, 150-1, 159 



Phaselis, 131, 133 



Philippine Is., 28, 34, 117; ... Sea and 

 Trench, 180 



Philoctetes, the Archer, 170 



Phipps, Captain C.J., R.N., 190; survey- 

 ing techniques of, 93, 191 



Phoenicians, 18, 20, 25, 128, 132, 152, 214; 

 route round Africa, 130, 131; sphere 

 of influence, 130; tin route to Britain, 

 130 



Phosphates, present in guano, 239 



Photography, aerial, 138, 145, 151, 226; 

 underwater, 138, 177, 192, 196, 199, 234 



Photosynthesis, 236 



Phycus, 138, 159 



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