Vancouver I., 42, 44 



Van Diemen's Land, see Tasmania 



Vardo, 60, 64 



Varna, see Odessus 



"Vasa," Swedish warsliip, 166-7 



Venezuelan Basin, 176 



Venice, 138 



Ventris, Michael, 128 



Venus, transit of, 1769, 37, 39 



Verde, Cape, 30 



Verne, Jules, 66 



Vertebrates, mainly land animals, 76, 82 



Vesuvius, Mt., 141 



"Victoria," Magellan's ship, 30, 35; route 



& her return to Spain, 28, 29 

 Victoria & Felix Harbours, 50 

 Victoria Island, 50; ... Land, 51 

 Victory Point, King William Island, 48 

 "Victory," Sir John Ross, 1829, 48 

 VIeux Port, Marseilles, 145 

 Vikings, 18-9, 22 

 "Viking," sealer, 56; route of, 60 

 Vllalne, R., tidal bore in, 220 

 Virgil, 142 



VIrgilio, Scogllo di, 140 

 Virginia, 19 

 Virgin Is., 116 

 VIrjenes, Cape, 29, 33 

 Viscount Melville Sound, 184 

 Vistula, R., 21 



Winter Harbour and Island, 50 



WItham, R., 231 



Wolds, Lincolnshire, 231 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu- 

 tion, 114, 174-5 



Wookey, George, diving gear, 137 



Worms, sea, 76, 86-7; "bristle" worms, 

 86-7; influence of on sea bed, 196 



Wrangel I., 61, 71 



Wrecks, 160-9; sites of ancient, 138-9 



Wyville-Thomson, Prof. C, 115 



Wyville-Thomson Ridge, 176, 184 



Yap Ridge, 180 



YassI I., Chuka Channel, 168 



Yellow Sea, 7, 180 



Yezd, 13 



Yokohama, 117 



Yucatan Basin, 176 



Yunaska Pass, 70 



Zacynthos, 131, 133 

 Zeus, statue of, 162 

 Zoo, London, 113 

 Zooplankton, 110 



"Zuytdorp," Dutch East India Co. ship, 

 169 



Wadden Sea, Denmark, 233 



Walsh, Lieut Donald, U.S.N., 121, 199 



Walvis or Cape Basin, 176 



Walvis Ridge, 176 



Wash, The, 231 



Water, distribution of, on earth, 10 



Waterloo, Battle of, 46 



Water-sampling gear, 177 



Waves, 224-26; refraction of, 224-6; 



source of power, 240-1 

 Weather ships, 225 

 Weddell, Captain James, 53 

 Weddell Sea, 6, 53, 55, 175, 212 

 Weems, Captain P.V.H., 147 

 Wegener, Alfred, geologist, 11 

 Welland, R., 231 

 Wellington, 116, 117 

 Well, The, 231 



West Australian Basin and Ridge, 187 

 West Caroline Basin, 180 

 West Indies, 78, 189, 199, 202 

 West wind drift, 204-5, 207 

 Whales, 76, 89, 110, 236 

 Whelks, 88 

 Whitby, 36 



White cliffs of Dover, The, 232 

 White Sea, 19, 184 

 Wielingen, 169 

 Wight, Isle of, 232 

 Wilkes, Charles, U.S. explorer, 51 

 Wind and current charts, 174 

 Winds, Lieut. Maury's work on, 174 

 Windward, sailing powers to, of ancient 



Egyptian ships, 132 



