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INDEX 



Magnetic Pole, i. 16, 17, 18, 26 

 Party, i. 46, 54 



Plateau, i. 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 57, 

 60, 61, 187, 202, 207 

 altitude, i. 60 

 crevasses, i. 60 

 highest temperature, i. 40, 41 

 ice-crystals, i. 40, 41 

 ice-falls, i. 60 

 icefields, i. 60 

 snowfields, i. 60 

 winds, i. 22, 28, 31, 61 

 Magnetite, i. 220, 227, 258, 259 ; ii. 94, 103, 108, 109, 

 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 119, 124, 132, 135, 

 137, 138, 142, 162 

 basalt, C. Barne, i. 259 

 Tent Island, i. 259 

 Malacolite, ii. 167 

 Malaspina C41acier, i. 9 

 Marble partly silicified, C. Royds, i. 1 1 1 



saccharoidal, C. Bernacchi, i. 84, 233, 234, 242, 247 



C. Royds, i. Ill 

 Stranded Moraines, i. 233 

 Point, i. 84, 233, 247 

 Marine deposits, i. 210, 230, 231 



erosion, i. 4, 9, 71, 74, 137, 201, 207 

 near Backdoor Bay, i. 207 

 C. Barne, i. 207 

 C. Washington, i. 207 

 checked by sea-ice, i. 192 

 Drygalski Ice Tongue, i. 207 

 Flagstaff Point, i. 207 

 Glacier Tongue, i. 207 

 Icebergs, i. 207 

 near C. Bird, i. 207 

 Nordenskjold Ice Tongue, i. 207 

 Ross Barrier, i. 207 

 Stranded Moraines, i. 98 

 fossils. Dry Valley, i. 85 



Mt. Hope, i. 121 

 muds, i. 266 



Backstairs Passage, i. 266 



Dry Valley, i. 266 



Drygalski Barrier, i. 55, 56, 62, 63 



elevated, C. Royds, ii. 41, 49, 85 



from soundings, i. 55 



geological age of, i. 273 



Mt. Erebus, i. 208, 210 



Ross Island, i. 231, 266 



Sea, i. 192 

 South Victoria Land, i. 231 

 Southern Ocean, i. 192 

 upthrust hypothesis, i. 270, 275 

 near Mt. Larsen, ii. 27, 37 

 western slopes, Ross Island, i. 266 

 sediments, Backdoor Bay, i. 262 

 C. Barne, i. 262, 263 

 Marshall, Eric, Dr., i. 118, 121, 218 



P., Dr., i. 306, 307 

 Marshall Mountains, height, i. 122 

 Marston, i. 127, 133 



Martin, L., i. 9 



Mawson, Douglas, i. 2, 19, 33, 42, 45, 48, 54, 61, 65, 68, 

 78, 81, 114, 153, 154, 160, 161, 165, 208, 212, 

 217, 218, 232, 233, 234, 243, 245, 247, 251, 

 254, 260, 277, 302, 308, 311 ; ii. 89, 203 

 Classification of Eruptive Rocks, i. 244 

 Contribution to Study of Ice-structures, ii. 1 

 Petrology of South Victoria Land Rocks, 

 ii. 201 

 Mawson Glacier, i. 46, 64, 69, 71, 74, 76, 101,201, 288, 289 

 " alb " valleys, i. 200 

 trogtal valleys, i. 200 

 Valley, i. 76 

 width of, i. 140 

 Mawson's Expedition, i. 202, 317 

 McGillan, i. 114, 218 



McMurdo Sound, i. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 23, 86, 96, 

 98, 102, 107, 109, 111, 112, 115, 131, 132, 

 133, 173, 179, 181, 186, 190, 276 

 blizzards, i. 42, 106 

 currents, i. 189, 190 

 east side, soundings, i. 109, 115 

 floe-ice, i. 180 



freezing of water, i. 182, 189 

 marine erosion, i. 207 

 moraine material, i. 115, 116 

 sediments, i. 199, 230 

 temperature of water, i. 188 

 thaw effect, i. 190 

 thickness of ice, i. 182 

 water sky, i. 190 

 Meinardus, i. 22, 25 

 Meridional fault, i. 5 

 Mesozoic, i. 298, 310 



Meta-arkoses, Beardmore Glacier Valley, i. 234 

 Meta-granites, Beardmore Glacier Valley, i. 234 

 Metamorphic rocks, i. 247 



Marble Point, i. 233, 247 

 Metamorphism, i. 250 



C. Irizar, i. 65 

 Metasomatism, ii. 190 

 Meteorological notes, i. 14 

 Mica, biotite, i. 251 



green, near C. Ross, i. 80 

 muscovite, i. 251 

 Mica-schist, Dry Valley, i. 233 

 Marble Point, i. 84, 233 

 Ross Island, i. 263 

 Mickle Island, i. 191 

 Microcline, ii. 169, 207 

 Micro-granite, i. 246 

 Microlites, ii. 112, 116, 117, 136 

 Micropegmatite, i. 255, 308 

 Microperthite, ii. 158, 172 

 Microsanidinites, i. 221 ; ii. 134, 136. 139 

 Microtinites, i. 308 ; ii. 134 

 Mierozoa, ii. 76 



Blue Lake, i. 161 

 Midget Tarn, i. 167 

 Mill, H. R., Dr., i. 15, 22 

 Mill Glacier, i. 8, 121 



