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INDEX 



Beacon Sandstone — continued 



Mt. Bartlett, i. 121 

 Buckley, i. 121 

 Cis, i. 221, 257 

 Darwin, i. 241 

 Fridtjof Nansen, i. 300 



near Horseshoe Bay, i. 114 



petrological character, i. 251 



Ross Island, i. 102, 308 



saccharoidal, ii. 205 



Solitary Rocks, i. 88 



stalagmitic, ii. 205 



Suess Nunatak, i. 298 



Terracotta Mountain, i. 198 



weathering of, i. 198, 199 

 " Bearded " structure, ii. 182 



Beardmore Glacier, i. 3, 6, 8, 22, 30, 34, 82, 116-22, 

 130-33, 135, 137, 140, 141, 142, 201, 232, 

 234, 235, 241, 243, 245, 289, 299, 315 



" alb " valleys, i. 200 



crevasses, i. 37, 122 



dimensions, i. 118 



erratics, i. 117 



evidence of shrinkage, i. 122, 133, 134 



former level of, i. 119, 122 

 thickness, i. 119, 120 



limestone, i. 242, 310 



moraine, i. 120, 121, 235, 242, 264, 265 



rate of movement, i. 141 



sedimentary rocks, i. 150 



" trogtal " valleys, i. 200 



Valley, i. 117, 119, 120, 121, 234, 241, 291, 292 



width of, i. 140 

 Beaufort Island, i. 5, 191, 228 

 Becke, i. 305 

 Beheaded glaciers, i. 45 

 Belgica Expedition, i. 303 

 Bellinghausen, i. 312 

 Belonites, ii. 107 

 Beluchistan Range, i. 317 



Benson, W. N., i^ 255, 256, 308 ; ii. 133, 142, 153 

 Berg, stranded, soundings near, i. 132 

 Bergen Railway, Norway, i. 32 

 Bergs, stranded, i. 12, 132 

 Bernacchi, L. C, i. 17, 84 

 Betic Cordillera, i. 317 

 Biloculina, i. 230 



clay, i. 231 ; ii. 27 

 Bingley Glacier, i. 122 



Biotite, i. 66, 78, 233, 245, 303 ; ii. 132, 137, 155, 157, 

 162, 170, 173, 174, 176, 177, 211, 212, 213 

 bleached, ii. 169 

 manganiferous, ii. 232 

 Bi-polar theory, ii. 27 

 Biscoe Islands, i. 317 

 Black Island, i. 5, 116, 271, 274, 287 



moraines, i. 116, 274 

 Blacksand Beach, i. 12, 148, 185, 186, 197 



icefoot, i. 177, 178, 190 

 Blizzard of February 15 to 18, 1908, i. 177, 207 



February 19 to 21, 1908, i. 193 



Blizzard — continued 



on Erebus, March 8 and 9, 1908, i. 212 

 Blizzards, i. 15, 17, 19, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 41, 42, 71, 74, 

 76, 95, 104, 105, 106, 131, 132, 148, 151, 177, 178, 

 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 192, 197, 212 

 snow carried by, i. 101, 131 

 south-easterly, i. 12, 103, 180, 187, 189, 214 

 southerly, i. 12, 27, 62, 74, 76, 100, 187, 189 

 Blue bergs, i. 173 

 Blue Glacier, i. 98, 99, 121, 185 

 movement of, i. 141 

 Valley, i. 87 

 width of, i. 140 

 Lake, i. 88, 109, 148, 157, 165, 169, 201, 264 ; ii. 10 

 ablation, i. 33, 34 

 dyke, i. 218 

 eskers, i. 112, 158, 159 

 moraine terraces, i. 112 

 narrows trench, i. 158, 161, 162 

 plan of, i. 158 

 prismatic ice, i. 151, 155, 156, 159, 160, 161, 



162, 193 

 shafts, i. 36, 158 ; ii. 12 

 structure of ice, i. 159, 160, 161, 162 ; ii 11 

 summer thaw, i. 203, 204 

 temperature in trenches, i. 162 

 thickness of ice, i. 159, 161, 162 

 trenches, i. 159, 160, 161, 162 

 Valley, i. 154 

 Bolivian Andes, i. 298 

 Bombs, Mt. Erebus, i. 212 

 Bonney Glacier, i. 81 



Valley, i. 81 

 Bony plates, i. 8 



Borchgrevink, C. E., i. 123, 130, 260 ; ii. 118 

 Borchgrevink Inlet, i. 123, 127 



Nunatak, i. 286 

 Borchgrevink's Winter Quarters, i. 15 

 Boring of Ross Barrier, i. 144, 145 

 Bornemann, i. 237, 238, 241 

 Bostonite, i. 306 

 Boulder clay, i. 9, 194 



C. Royds, i. 109, 110 

 Wilson Piedmont, i. 100 

 Brabant Island, i. 285 

 Brachiopods, i. 231, 266 

 Brach yph yllum inammillnre, i. 313 

 Bransfield Strait, i. 317 



volcanoes, i. 297 

 Brash-ice, i. 180, 191 



Brazil, Gondwana coal-measures, i. 253, 298 

 Breccia, Lower Glacier Depot, i. 235, 241 

 Bridgman Island, i. 297, 301, 304, 318 

 Brine in ice-flowers, i. 181, 182 

 in sea-ice, i. 183 

 Green Lake, i. 152, 153, 154 

 Britannia Range, i. 23 

 British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9, i. 229 



1910-13, i. 8, 11, 13, 31, 63, 106, 130, 135, 

 136, 144, 145, 201, 223, 241, 298, 317 

 Museum, i. 248 



