INDEX

Advent Bay, 1, 67, 90, 121, 126, 154, 221

Adventure Land, 36, 121, 220

Agardh Bay, 220

Ahlstrand, Cape, 229

Andrée and his balloon, 155

Atmospherical phenomenon, curious, 180

Baldwin, Mr., 67

Bar, The, 70

Barents Land, 28, 46, 47, 183, 223

Barrel-vaults of ice, 51

Bear Island, landing on, 191

Bernese Oberland, glacier action in the, 210, 213

Birds Cape, 224

Nesting-places of, 3, 50, 65, 79, 98, 108, 133, 143, 165, 184

Blomstrand Harbour, 71, 145

Mound, 71, 145

Boat, troubles with our, 167

Bornemisza, Baron, 154, 155

Calving of a glacier, 13, 74, 77, 140, 141

Chydenius, Mount, 28, 43

Clouds, low-lying, 63, 104, 113, 131, 138, 140

Coal Bay, vide Coles Bay

Haven, 71, 147

Coles Bay, 68, 221

Cookeries, whaling, 151, 160, 162

Crevassed glacier, 16, 77, 110, 133

Crevasses, Depth of, 143

Difficulties with sledges amongst, 16, 132, 133

Cross Bay, 10, 71, 151, 218

Mountains, 104, 122, 131

Crowns, The Three, 72, 85, 109, 116, 119, 120

Ascent of one of, 119

Glacier, 72, 105, 114, 122

De Geer Peak, 21, 22, 23, 48, 50

Ascent of, 27

Deceptive appearances on snowfields, 24

Deer Bay, 71

Diadem Peak, Ascent of, 124

Dickson Bay, 33, 39, 218, 219

Dubbin, Norwegian and other, 49

Dunder Bay, 221, 231, 233

Dutch Bay, 218

Eating-back rivers and glaciers, 210, et seq.

Ebeltoft’s Haven, 151

Edge Land, 223

Edlund, Mount, 28, 41

Ascent of, 42

Eiderdown, 65

Ekman Bay, 73, 92, 116, 121, 218

Ekstam, Herr, 1, 67

Elevation of the land, 59

English Bay, 69, 70, 85

Equipment, 18

Exile Peak, 124

Expres, The, 2, 154

Fair Foreland, 224

Falling ice, 177

Fleur-de-Lys Point, 5

Fog on snowfield, Puzzling effect of, 31

Travelling through, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34

Foreland, Prince Charles’, 68, 122, 223

Sound, 68, 122, 224

Fox Glacier, 221

Foxes, 88

Fram, Crew of the, 2, 192

Garwood, E. J., 1, and passim

Land, Description of, 56, 57, 58, 212, 219

Land, Wide view over interior of, 38, 46

Gatty, Ascent by Mr. Victor, 221

Glacier, Ice-tunnel in a, 137

Phenomena, notable, 51, 111, 128

Torrents, 79, 83, 103, 106, 111

Cliffs, 9, 77, 141

Glaciers, Action of on their beds, 207

Advance of, 138

Calving, 13, 74, 77, 140, 141

Ending in deep water, 10

Ending in shallow water must advance, 11

That eat back at their heads, 60

Goose Glacier, 159, 168, 170, et sqq.

Haven (Horn Sound), 157, et sqq.

Islands (Ice Fjord), 64

Green Harbour, 220

Greenland and Spitsbergen, Contrast between, 36, 61

Heat on the snowfields, 87, 100, 108, 130

Hedgehog, Ascent of Mount, 170

Heley Sound, 44

Highway Dome, 91

Pass, 90

Himalayas, How rivers have “eaten back” in the, 210

Hofer Point, 158

Horn Glacier, 166

Sound, Visit to, 157, et sqq., 225

To Bell Sound over Torell Glacier, 225, et sqq.

Hornsunds Tinder, 121, 165, 170, et sqq., 222, 226, 227

Hyperite Hat, 67

Icebergs, 141, 142, 145, 147

Ice-encrusted rocks, 178

Flat below a glacier’s foot, 160

Honeycomb, 19, 55, 81

Sheets, 36, 37, 206, 207, 216

Inland ice, 206, 234

King James Land, 89, 96, 218

King Karl Island, 223

Kings Bay, 70, 138, et sqq.

Landing in, 74

King’s Highway, 72, 76, et sqq., 115

Expedition up, 76, et sqq.

Kittiwake Glacier, 165

Klaas Billen Bay, 5, et sqq., 48, 55, 62, et sqq., 219

Lakes, Burst Glacier, 53, 100, 137

Lerner, Dr., 3

Lovén Islands, 72, 141, 143

Mount, 45

Low Sound, 221

Lyell Cape, 231

Lyktan, 33

Magdalena Bay, 218

Mauritius Bay, 218

Meridian arc in Spitsbergen, Proposal for measurement of a, 173, 234

Michel Rinders Bay, 221

Mimesdal, 7, 17, 219

Mitra Hook, 71, 152

Moraines, Struggle with sledges up and over, 15, 80, 134

Mount Blanc Range, Previous form of, 209

Mountain exploration, Difficulties of, 95

Mountains, Scale of, 91, 118

New Friesland, 207, 219

Nielsen, Edward, 22, 32, 84, 125, 127, 131, 141, 170

Mount, 76, 78

Nordenskiöld, Baron, A. E., 41, 156, 174, 222

Herr Gustaf, 176, 225

Glacier, 6, 8, et sqq.

Nordenskiöld Gl., Expedition up, 15, et sqq.

North Cape of Norway, 191

North-East Land, 207, 222, 234

Nunataks, 38, 84

Osborne Glacier, 98, et sqq.

Palæolithic climbing, 163

Peter Winter’s Bay, 69, 223

Pike, Mr. Arnold, 158, 223

Plateaus carved into mountain ranges by rivers and glaciers, 57, 208

Post Glacier, 220

Pretender Pass, 104

Peak, 73, 85, 105, 107, et sqq.

Scramble on, 113

Prince Charles Foreland, 68, 122, 223

Prismatic Ice, 102

Pyramid, The, 7

Quade Hook, 70

Queens, The, 73, 85, 101, 104, 105

Recherche Bay, vide Schoonhoven

Reindeer, Destruction of, 9, 144

Roebuck Land, 222

Rotges Mount, 225

Russian trappers, 69, 151, 159

Sabine, Sir Edward, 173

St. John’s Bay, 68, 99, 223

Sassendal, 213, 220, 221

Schoonhoven (Recherche Bay), 221, 222, 229, 231

Scoresby, Dr., 71

Scoresby’s Grotto, 145

Screes, 114, 119

Seven Icebergs, The, 218

Islands, 154

Shallow River Valley, 221

Shoes, Lapp, 49

Silence of the snowfields, 89, 123

Skans Bay, 3, 219

Ski, 24, 30, 34, 37, 55, 93, 100, 106, 123, 125, 127, 129, 194, et sqq., 230

Fastenings of, 197

First attempts on, 25, 201

Footgear for, 199

Glissading with, 203

In the Alps, 204

Kinds of, 196

Makers of, 200

Records with, 202

Staff for, 200

Sledges, Misfortunes with, 55, 79, 80, 103, 132, 139

Snow blown by a gale, 35

Snowfield, Different aspects of surface of, 94, 98

Travelling over, 21-50

Waterlogged, 82, 102, 124

Snowshoes, Canadian, 26, 30, 32, 49

Norwegian, vide Ski

Spitsbergen, Geography of, 217

Stonehenge Rocks, 164

Stones, Falling, 110

Storm on a snowfield, 34, 35

Strong Glacier, 221

Svanberg, Mount, 43

Svensen’s troubles, 23, 32, 34, 35, 36, 40, 48, 50, 66, 84, 101, 119, 129, 149, 153, 156

Temple Bay, 220

Mount, 66

Terrier Peak, 18, 30, 47, 50, 52

Teufelsdrökh on North Cape, 193

Thordsen Plateau, 3, 28, 93, 219

Tibet, Partially undenuded plateau of, 210

Torell Glacier, 222, 228, et sqq., 235

Tourists in Spitsbergen, 1, 67, 155

Trevor-Battye, Mr. A., 157

Views, Notable, 6, 17, 19, 23, 28, 33, 38, 46, 48, 71, 87, 92, 105, 112, 114, 120, 126, 136, 140, 144, 177, 180, 182, 192

Weather, Bad, 22, 34

Whales Bay, 221

White Mountain, 41

Ascent of, 45

Wiche Bay, 220

Land, 45, 158, 223

Wijde Bay, 29, 39, 122, 217, 219

Winter, Approach of, 136, 166, 171, 180, 188, 189, 190

Wood Bay, 218

Wybe Jans Water, 28, 39, 41, 43, 46, 47, 183

Zeehonde Bay, 69

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