MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
PORTRAIT OF SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, by George Henry, A.R.A. (Photogravure by Mr Emery Walker from a photograph by Messrs Cooper and Humphreys) FRONTISPIECE
MAP OF THE POLAR REGIONS 5
EFFECTS OF PRESSURE ON ANTARCTIC ICE. (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 11
INTERIOR OF GREENLAND HUT (Billeder fra Grönland, 1852) 22
GREENLANDERS DANCING (Billeder fra Grönland, 1852) 22
VIKING SHIP. (Phot. O. Vaering) 35
THE SOUTH-WESTERN EXTREMITY OF GREENLAND 40
RUINS IN KINGOA-DAL, SOUTH GREENLAND 48
THE ZENI MAP. (Based on the facsimile in Voyages of the Zeni, Hakluyt Society, 1873) 54
ASTROLABE IN GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (EARLY 14TH CENTURY). (Venn, Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, vol. IV.) 57
WILLEM BARENTSZ. (De Vries, Oud-Holland) 69
NOVAYA ZEMLYA, SHOWING ENTRANCES TO KARA SEA 71
“A WONDER IN THE HEAVENS, AND HOW WE CAUGHT A BEAR.” (De Bry, India Orientalis, 1599) 73
“HOW OUR SHIP STUCK FAST IN THE ICE.” (De Bry) 74
PART OF HONDIUS’S MAP OF 1611, SHOWING BARENTSZ’S DISCOVERIES 77
RELICS FROM BARENTSZ’S HUT. (From the National Museum, Amsterdam, by kind permission of the Directorate) 79
“THE EXACT MANNER OF THE HOUSE WHEREIN WE WINTERED.” (De Bry) 79
SIR MARTIN FROBISHER. (Holland, Heroologia, 1620) 82
FROBISHER’S DISCOVERIES 87
THE VOYAGES OF JOHN DAVIS 97
MEMORIAL TABLET TO RICHARD HAKLUYT IN BRISTOL CATHEDRAL 111
PART OF NORTH-WEST SPITSBERGEN 120
SIR THOMAS BUTTON 136
BAFFIN’S MAP OF HUDSON STRAIT 139
BAFFIN’S DISCOVERIES 144
CAPTAIN THOMAS JAMES. (From Voyages of Foxe and James, Hakluyt Society, 1894) 153
PART OF FOXE’S MAP, 1635 155
HUDSON BAY 167
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE. (From the engraving by Condé, after Lawrence) 169
BERING’S VOYAGE FROM KAMSCHATKA TO NORTH AMERICA. (Synge, A Book of Discovery) 178
NORTH-EASTERN SIBERIA 181
NORTH-WESTERN SIBERIA 181
THE PARRY ISLANDS 210
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN 239
FACSIMILE OF FRANKLIN EXPEDITION RECORD. (M’Clintock, Fate of Franklin) 244
CRITICAL POSITION OF H.M.S. INVESTIGATOR ON THE NORTH COAST OF BARING ISLAND, AUG. 20TH, 1851. (Colour sketch by S. Gurney Cresswell) 264
LIEUT CRESSWELL’S PARTY SLEDGING OVER HUMMOCKY ICE. (Colour sketch by S. Gurney Cresswell) 268
JULIUS PAYER 290
LIEUT PARR, R.N., H.M.S. Alert. (Phot. Maull & Co.), COMMANDER A. H. MARKHAM, R.N., H.M.S. Alert. (Phot. Elliott & Fry), SIR GEORGE NARES. (Phot. J. Griffin & Co.), LIEUT P. ALDRICH, R.N., H.M.S. Alert. (Phot. F. Johnson), LIEUT L. A. BEAUMONT, H.M.S. Discovery. (Phot. Elliott & Fry) 302
SUB-LIEUT GEORGE LE CLERC EGERTON, R.N. (Phot. Elliott & Fry) 306
LIEUT WYATT RAWSON, R.N. (Phot. Maull & Co.) 306
THE PANDORA (CAPTAIN ALLEN YOUNG) IN PEEL STRAIT 312
ADOLF ERIK NORDENSKIÖLD 332
EAST COAST OF GREENLAND. (Based on map in Mikkelsen, Lost in the Arctic) 366
GREENLAND 377
ORTELIUS’ MAP OF THE WORLD 391
GRAHAM LAND AND SOUTH SHETLANDS 399
MT EREBUS FROM THE SOUTH. (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 416
ADÉLIE PENGUINS (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 456
EMPEROR PENGUIN WITH CHICK (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 456
CHASM SEPARATING ICE AND LAND IN LAT. 82° S. (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 463
THE MORNING. (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 466
TYPICAL LOOSE PACK—MT MELBOURNE IN DISTANCE. (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 480
A TILTED BERG, SHOWING THE OLD SURFACE INCLINED TO THE LEFT (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 492
TYPICAL BERGS—TERRA NOVA IN DISTANCE (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 492
EMPEROR PENGUIN ROOKERY, CAPE CROZIER. (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 497
BARRIER BERG AGROUND OFF KING EDWARD VII LAND. (From Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery) 507
Acknowledgement is due to Messrs Smith, Elder & Co. and Mr John Murray for permission to reproduce the illustrations from Scott’s Voyage of the Discovery, to Mr John Murray for permission to reproduce the facsimile of the Franklin Expedition Record; also to Mr William Heinemann for leave to use the map in Mikkelsen’s Lost in the Arctic, to Messrs T. C. & E. C. Jack for the block from Synge’s A Book of Discovery, and to the Hakluyt Society for the portrait of Thomas James.
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p. 100, line 4 from bottom: for Sunrise read Sunshine