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Arctic regions, geology of, 384 et seq. 
Arctowski, Henryk, 434, 435, 453 
Ardencaple Inlet surveyed, 375 
Area of Greenland, 9 
Areas, Polar, 3 
Arenaria sulcata, 295 
Arethusa, 223 
Arias, Juan Luis, his memorial, 392 
Armitage, Lieut. Albert, 292, 448, 
463 et seq., 480 
Arnold, Bishop, 48 
Art, Tchuktche, 17 
Arte de Navegar, 151; translated by 
Eden, 65 
Assistance, 251 et seq., 261, 264 et 
seq., 349 
Astrolabe, 407 
Astrolabe, 53; description of, 56, 57; 
Drake's, 57 
Astrup, Eivind, 337, 338 
Atalayas, 125 
Atkinson, Dr, 490, 491, 498, 499, 
503. 504 
Atlantic current, 30 
Auks, Little, 199 
Aurora, 486 et seq. 
Austin, Capt. H. T., 216, 252, 255, 
273, 401; death of, 262 
Axel Heiberg Island, 348, 349, 354 
Back, Sir George, 223 et seq., 276; 
serves with Buchan, 199; reaches 
Repulse Bay, 230 
Baffin, 196 
Baffin, William, 124, 125, 138; 
patronised by Wolstenholme, 108; 
sails with Hall, 113; magnetic 
observations by, 115; visits Spits- 
bergen, 116; enters service of the 
East India Co., 146; his Arctic 
voyages, 146; his letter to Wol- 
stenholme, 145; his magnetic ob- 
servations, 126; explores Spits- 
bergen, 127; his map of Hudson 
Strait, 139; lunar observations of, 
140; visits Eskimo settlement, 
140; his third voyage, 142; map 
of his discoveries, 1 44 ; surveys 
Persian coast, 147; captain of the 
London, 147; death of, 147; quali- 
ties of, 148 
Baffin's Bay, 145, 305; birds of, 99; 
currents of, 6; entered by the 
Norsemen, 50; its existence doubt- 
ed, 145; lost, 146; existence re- 
established, 201 
Baffin Island, 141 
Baidor, 171 
Balaclava helmets, 462 
Balaena, 296, 431, 439 
— Biscayensis, 125 
Balleny, Capt. John, his Antarctic 
expedition, 405, 414 
— Islands, 406, 408, 417, 477 
Ballestilla, 89 
Balloon, captive, 450, 457 
Bardsen, Ivar, report on Greenland, 
5 1 ; his sailing directions trans- 
lated by Barentsz, 70 
Barentsz, Willem, 69; his voyage to 
Novaya Zemiya, 70 ; discovers 
Spitsbergen, 74; crews attacked 
by scurvy, 75 ; winters in Novaya 
Zemiya, 75; dies, 76; discoveries 
of, 77; character of, 78; winter 
quarters revisited, 78; hut of, 79; 
relics of, 79 
— Sea, 297, 360 
Barker, Andrew, 114, 115, 116 
Barne, Michael, 449, 463, 471, 475 
"Barren lands," 18 
Barrier, The Great, ir, 416, 419, 
433> 453- 456; altered limit of, 
457, 475; height of, 457 
Barrington, Hon. Daines, 172 
Basaltic pillars, 324; rocks, 295 
Basques, the first whalers, 125 
Bathurst Island explored, 268 
Batty e, A. Trevor, 361 
Bay ice, 7 
— of Whales, 483 
Beach Province, 391 
Beagle Channel, 436 
Bear, 86 
Bear, Nelson's adventure with, 173; 
Bears, 296 
Bear Island (or Cherrie Island), 73, 
121 
— Islands, 324 
Beardmore Glacier, 498 
Beaufort Island, 416 
■ — ■ Sea unexplored, 383 
Beaufoy, 402 
Beaumont, Lieut., 308 
Bedford, 223 
Beechey, Capt. F. W., 226 et seq.; 
serves with Buchan, 198; sails 
with Parry, 206 
— Island, 241, 265, 311, 314, 349 
Behaira, Martin, figures polar is- 
lands, 54 
Belcher, Sir Edward, 264, 269, 349 
Belgian Antarctic expedition, 433 et 
seq. 
Belgica, 368, 434 
Bertelsen, 370 et seq. 
Bell, Richard, 108, 113 
— Sound, 119, 187. 188, 285 et seq. 
