Index 
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rescued by Jackson, 293; crosses 
Greenland, 334 et seq.; his instru- 
ments for crossing Greenland, 335 ; 
scientific papers of, 345; his In 
Northern Mists, 346 
Nares, Admiral Sir George, 267, 304 
et seq., 446; his expedition sails, 
304; arrives at Lievely, 305; his 
winter quarters, 305 ; results of his 
expedition, 309 ; commands the 
Challenger, 428 
Narwhals, 143 
Nathorst, Professor, 368 
Natives, Polar, 13 
Nelson, Horatio, 173 
— Mr, 490, 503 
Nemtinoff, Lieut., 285 
Neumeyer, Prof., 440, 441 
New Attractive, 100 
New Guinea, 391 
New Siberian Islands, v. Liakhov 
Islands 
Newfoundland, 98; (Vinland), dis- 
covered by Leif Erik, 42; redis- 
covered, 58 
Newland, 118, 119 
Newton, Professor Alfred, 287 
Nias, Sir Joseph, 201, 212 
Nicholas of Lynn, 53 
Nimrod, 478 et seq. 
Ninnis, Lieut., 486; death of, 487 
Nodal, the brothers, 390 
Nonsuch, 165 
Nordenskiold, Erland, 325 
— Nils Adolf Erik, Baron, 322 et 
seq., 386; on Omoki, 16; visits 
Spitsbergen, 286 et seq.; explores 
Greenland, 325; results of his 
voyage, 324; character of, 325; 
his explorations in Greenland, 322 
— Otto, 368; his Antarctic expedi- 
tion, 435 et seq.; results, 438, 
439 
Nordsetur 49 
Norman, Robert, his Nezv Attractive, 
100 
Norse colony in Greenland, attempt 
to rediscover, 112 
— methods of reckoning time, 45 
— Settlement of East Bygd found- 
ed, 41 
Norsemen, the, 30, 32; Arctic dis- 
coveries by, 32 et seq., 38 et seq., 
49 et seq. ; in Greenland, 38 
North Cape, rounded by Ohthere, 
34; named by Burrough, 63 
North East Passage, 322; attempted 
by Wood, 156 
North Georgian Gazette, 208 
North Pole, attempts to reach, 351 
et seq. 
North Somerset, 251 
North Star, Davis's, 96; Saunders's, 
250, 265 
North West Passage, 155, 268, 275, 
314; attempted by Frobisher, 81; 
attempted by Ross, 233; rewards 
for discovery of, 172 
Norwegian expeditions, Antarctic, 
433, 482 et seq.; Novaya Zemlya, 
288; Spitsbergen, 286 
Novaya Zemlya, 157, 289, 316, 360; 
description of, 184 et seq.; dis- 
covered by Willoughby, 61 ; visited 
by Hudson, 122 
Nunataks, 331, 333, 335, 372, 373, 
378, 381 
Oates, Capt., 490, 491, 498, 500 et 
seq.; death of, 502; cairn to his 
memory, 503 
Obi River, 323, 326 
Observations, lunar, by Baffin, 140; 
magnetic, 99, 115; magnetic, 
Antarctic, 475, 476; Peary's, 357; 
pendulum, Antarctic, 400 ; sta- 
tions for synchronous, 316, 414; 
synchronous, Antarctic, 420, 451 
Observatory, Rossbank, 414 
Ocean, depth of, 296, 297, 344, 345 
Oceanic currents in Arctic, 5 
Oceanography, Antarctic, 426 et seq. 
Odin's horse (Sleipner), 31 
Odometer, 372 
Officers of Nares's expedition, 304 
Ohthere, 33; voyage of, 34 
Olaf, Bishop, 49 
Olaf Tryggvason, Saga of, 38 
Ommanney, Erasmus, 237, 251, 
252; death of, 262 
Omoki, 16, 20 
"One-ton Depdt," 494, 49§ 
Onkilon, 16, 20; relics of the, 21 
Origanus, David, 141 
Orleans Channel, 434, 436 
Ormuz, siege of, 147 
Ornen, 113 
Orosius, 33 
Ortelius, map of world (i57°)> 55, 
39 1 
Osborn, Sherard, 251, 261, 264 et 
seq., 268, 301, 302 
Ostiaks, 16 
Otter, Sea, 178 
Ox, Musk, 22 
Paar, Major, first governor of Green- 
land, 160 
