INDEX 



263 



Red Flag Hill, i. 150 



Lake, i. 167 

 Reeves Glacier, i. 23, 24, 29, 46, 48, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 

 118, 135, 137, 140, 141, 287 

 crevasses, i. 57 

 dimensions, i. 57, 61 

 maximum glaciation, i. 63 

 movement of, i. 141 

 width of, i. 140 

 Nunatak, i. 287 



Piedmont, i. 48, 56, 61, 62, 201 

 Reinschia australis, i. 312 

 Reiter, A., i. 299, 305 

 Relief Met, i. 18, 52, 54, 56, 62, 63, 116 

 soundings, i. 63 



thickness of ice at maximum glaciation, i. 63 

 Research for future expeditions, i. 144, 145, 146 

 Rhabdocyathus, i. 239, 240 

 Rhaetic plant-bearing beds, i. 298 

 Riebeckite, i. 257 ; ii. 94, 97, 106, 108, 111 

 Rink, H., i. 45 



Rio Grande do Sul Gondwana coal-measures, i. 253 

 Robertson, Capt., i. 312 

 Robertson Island, i. 318 

 Robertson's Bay glaciers, i. 134, 135 

 Roches moutomiees, i. 50, 194 

 Rock basins, i. 102, 200 



collections, numbering of, ii. 133 

 descriptions ; see Petrological descriptions 

 flour, C. Royds, i. 110 

 shelf, Mt. Hope, i. 121 

 terrace, i. 69, 122, 271 

 Rogers, i. 291 

 Rookery, i. 203 

 Roosen Channel, i. 286 

 Ross, J. C, Sir, i. 12, 46, 123, 125, 130, 131, 133, 143, 



188, 215, 287 

 Ross Barrier (see also Great Ice Barrier), i. 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 

 12, 14, 20, 22, 23, 30, 46, 56, 63, 83, 

 84, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 116, 

 117, 118, 122, 146, 166, 173, 192, 

 263, 276, 288, 291 

 afloat, i. 123, 125, 126, 127, 134, 135, 138, 142, 



144 

 aground, i. 138, 144, 146, 188 

 altitude, i. 4, 82, 102, 137 

 annual ice aceumulatio'n, i. 139, 142, 143 



snow accumulation, i. 135, 139, 142, 143 

 boring through ice, i. 144, 145 

 C. Royds, i. 108, 134 

 control specimens, i. 139, 140, 145 

 cross-section of, i. 135, 136, 142 

 depth of water, i. 138 

 description of, i. 123, 125-35 

 direction of currents beneath, i. 145, 188, 189 

 east and west valleys, i. 127 

 effect on C. Bird erratics, i. 1 14 

 erosive force, i. 115 

 extent when discovered by Sir J. C. Ross, 



i. 287 

 formation of, i. 138, 139 

 II 



Ross Barrier — continued 

 fossil ice, i. 44 



future observations of, i. 144, 145, 146 

 granulation and crystallinity, i. 145 

 greatest height, i. 136 



thickness, i. 136 

 height at Western Inlet, i. 130 



near Beardmore Glacier Outlet, i. 120 

 horizontal shrinkage of, i. 133, 144 

 icebergs, i. 171, 180 

 Ice Cliff, shape and heights of, i. 130-34, 137, 



138, 142 

 ice discharged on from west side Ross Sea, 

 i. 141 

 lost annually, i. 139, 143 

 ribs, i. 137, 138, 144 

 internal structure, i. 131, 132, 133, 138, 139 

 lakes, i. 207 

 least thickness, i. 138 

 length, i. 46, 142 

 marine erosion, i. 207 



maximum glaciation, i. 133-35, 144, 146, 228, 

 289 

 date of latest phase, i. 143 

 mean density of ice, i. 143 

 moraines, i. 103. 110, 116, 117, 144, 223, 262, 



290, 293 

 movement of, i. 125, 127-30, 135, 136, 138, 

 141, 142, 146 

 per year, i. 135, 142 

 origin of, i. 132-37 

 pie-crust snow, i. 117 

 " pinnacle ice," i. 116 

 plain of glassy ice, i. 117, 118 

 rate of movement of, i. 145 

 remains of, i. 210, 263, 270 

 retreat of, i. 103, 112, 131, 133, 134, 144, 145, 

 287 

 from 1842 to 1902, i. 133, 144, 287 

 sastrugi, i. 118 

 sea-ice, i. 144 



serial temperatures in ice, i. 145 

 temperature of sea-water, i. 137, 138, 188 

 thickness of, i. 138, 142, 144, 290 

 undulations, i. 123, 124, 129, 130, 136, 137, 



138, 144, 185 

 vertical shrinkage, i. 133, 134, 143, 144, 290 

 Ross Island, i. 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 22, 27, 82, 110, 

 114, 115, 117, 133, 146, 157, 196, 260, 

 309 

 lavas and tuffs, i. 208, 223 



petrology of, ii. 93 

 marine deposits, i. 230, 231, 266, 289, 290 ; 



ii. 27, 37, 41, 49, 53, 85 

 moraines, i. 117, 133, 262, 288 

 submergence of, i. 223 

 terrace, i. 102 

 types of glaciation, i. 102 

 winds, i. 22, 27, 189 

 Piedmont, i. 145 

 quadrant, i. 1 



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