INDEX 
Smith, Captain William, 93 
Solander, Dr., 67 
Southern Barrier, The Great, 
280, 284 
Southern Cross, The, 395 
South Georgia, 48 
South Polar Expedition, Brit- 
ish, sanctioned, 191 
South Polar Expedition, 
French, under D’Urville, 
193 
South Polar Expedition, The 
United States, 21 1 
South Polar Exploration Ex- 
pedition, Swedish, 424 
South Polar Voyage, British 
Association Committee on 
the question of, 188-189 
Sparrman, Andrew, 68 
Stonington, Connecticut, 97, 
364 
Terra Nova, The, 417 
Terre Adelie, discovered by 
D’Urville, 202-206 
Thomson, Professor (after- 
wards Sir) C. Wyville, 
349 
455 
Tierra del Fuego, The dis- 
covery of, 25 
Torres, 37 
Traversey, Baron de, 114-115 
United States South Polar Ex- 
pedition, The, 21 1 
Valdivia, The, 403 
Vasco da Gama, 21 
Vespucci, 21 
Victoria Land, 262, 285 
Walker, Lieutenant, 224 
Washington, Captain, R. N., 
185 
Weddell, James, 91, 131 
Wilkes, Lieutenant (after- 
wards Captain) Charles, 
212 
Receives the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society’s gold 
medal, 248 
Tried by court-martial, 248 
Wilkes’s Chart, Captain Scott 
and, 247 
Wilkes’s friendly overtures 
to Ross, 246 
