INDEX 
Abernethy, Thomas, 233, 251, 265, 
413 
Abruzzi, Duke of, attempts to reach 
the Pole, 351 
Active, 431 
Adam of Bremen, chronicles visit of 
Norsemen to Greenland, 38 
Adams, Lieut. J. B., 478, 479 
— William, 390 
Adelaide Island, 432, 442 
Adelie Land, 407, 409, 477, 487 
Admiralty Range, 415 
Advance, 252, 298 et seq. 
Adventure, 394 
Aid, 86 
Akbar, 223 
Akuli Gulf, 230 et seq., 235 
Alabama, 376; loss of, 378 
Aldrich, Admiral Pelham, 2 58 et seq., 
304, 307, 428, 446 
Alert, 303 et seq., 312, 313 
Aleutian Islands discovered, 178 
Alexander, 198, 201, 202 
Alexander Island, 434 
— Land, 397, 442 
Alfland, 33 
Alfred, King, translates Orosius, 33 
Alten Fjord, 317 
Altitudes, Antarctic, 473, 480, 484, 
485. 50O, 501 
— m Greenland, 332, 333, 335, 336, 
338, 381 
Ambassador, Russian, visits Eng- 
land, 62 
Amdrup, Lieut. G., 367, 368 
Ameralik Fjord, 336 
America, North, coast line of, sur- 
veyed by Franklin, 222 ; by Back, 
228; by Dease and Simpson, 228 
American Antarctic expeditions, 400, 
408 
— Arctic Coast, 18; birds of, 18; 
fauna and flora of, 18 
Amsterdam Island, 360 
Amundsen, Roald, undertakes N.W. 
Passage, 314 et seq.; winters in 
King William Land, 314; serves in 
the Belgian Expedition, 434; his 
Antarctic expedition, 482 et seq.; 
meets Scott's partv, 493; reaches 
the South Pole, 485 
Andersson, Gunnar, 436, 439 
An dree, 344 
Andromache, 398, 400 
Angekoks, 23; Greenland, 366 
Angmagsalik, 365 et seq., 381 
A ngrim stones, 53 
Anian, Strait of, 82 
Anjou, Admiral, surveys Liakhovs, 
180 
Ann Frances, 86 
Anne Royal, 146 
Annula, 124 
Anoatok, 353, 355 
Antarctic, 368, 436; founders, 437 
Antarctic Circle first crossed, 395 
— exploration, story of, 430 et seq. 
— explorations, Amundsen's, 482 et 
seq.; Balleny's, 405, 414; Belgian, 
433 et seq.; Bellingshausen's, 396, 
397; Biscoe's, 403 et seq.; Borch- 
grevink's, 433; Bruce's, 439, 440; 
Charcot's, 441; Capt. Cook's, 394 
et seq.; D'Urville's, 407, 408; 
Drygalski's, 440; Filchner's, 442; 
Foster's, 400 et seq. ; French, 407, 
441; Gerlache's, 433 et seq.; 
German, 440, 442; Kempe's, 405; 
Mawson's, 486 et seq.; Norden- 
skiold's, 435 et seq.; Norwegian, 
433, 482 et seq.; Ross's, 410, 418, 
422 et seq.; Russian, 396; Scott's 
first expedition, 447 et seq. ; Scott's 
last expedition, 489 et seq. ; 
Shackleton's, 478 et seq.; Swedish, 
435 et seq., 506; The Societies*, 444 
et seq., 455 et seq., 466 et seq., 471 et 
seq. ; Weddell's, 401, 402 ; Wilkes's, 
408, 409 
— ice, 11; icebergs, it; regions, 
389 et seq, 
Antarctic Manual, 453 
Araucaria, 438 
Archer, 503 
— Colin, 347; constructs the Fram, 
34° 
Arctic, 302, 303 
Arctic currents, 23 
— discoveries, by Norsemen, 32 et 
seq., 38 et seq., 49 et seq.; under 
Elizabeth, 157 
"Arctic Highlanders," 24, 203, 253, 
299, 30L 3 I 3> 338, 339, 35^ et seq., 
379; dress of, 24; physical charac- 
teristics of, 24 
Arctic quadrants, 4, 6, T3 
