Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)
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Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)
Arctic regions
Bridgman, Herbert L., 288, 289, 296, 335, 349
Brown children of the ice, 124
Buchanan “Strait,” 300
Cache, 223, 333
on hummock of old floe, 120
of musk-ox meat, 163
of provisions, 199
deposited at Cape D’Urville, 298
at Cape Sabine, 315
Cairn, _Alert’s_, at Floeberg Beach, 50
record, 55
at summit of 1,600 ft. record deposited, 207
at top of Columbia, 183
built near ice-foot, 210, 219, 240, 329, 332
Lockyer Island, 298
at Cape Morris K. Jesup, 329
_Alert’s_—_Alert’s_ winter quarters, 339
Cairn Point, ship headed for, 257
Camp, between enormous hummocks, 111
first, 153
floe, see Ice
off Challenger Point, 181
on outer swell of glacier, 224
Campaign, preparation for spring, 336
Caribou, from Ellesmere Land, 349–351
Cape Albert, 34, 337
Albert Edward, 189
Alfred Ernest, 190
Alexandra, 185
Alexander, reached at midnight, 265
Athol, 266
Anguille, on Newfoundland coast, 15
Baird, 307, 250
Beechy, 249
Benêt, 324
Brevoort, 40, 321
Bridgman, latitude of, 328
Bryant, 324, 43
Calhoun, sailed into loose ice, 39
Chalon, 29, 265
Collision, 337
Conger, time spent in homely duties, 338
Cracroft, 307
Creswell, 177
Desfosse, 253
Defosse, 338
Discovery, 186
D’Urville, 36, 297
Dudley Diggs, 266
Dyer, 270
Fanshawe Martin, 187
same Lat. as Hecla, deep snow, 188, 225
Farewell and Chidley, in latitude of, 18
Fraser, 302
dog-food and supplies advanced to, 310, 337
Harrigan, 17
Harrison, tidal current, 298
Hecla, 56, 177, 340
three marches from Sheridan;
time spent there;
occupation while there, 97
difficulties in reaching, 233
Henry Cliffs, 234
Isabella, 34
John Sparrow, 36
Joseph Goode, 36
Joseph Henry, 57, 63, 234
Lawrence, 304, 306, 336,
Lieber to Joe Island, 250
Leopold von Buch, 319, 337
Louis Napoleon, 301
supplies at, 302, 336
Lupton, 39
May, 150
Morris K. Jesup, 147
Nares, 183
Neumeyer, 148
North, young ice on tidal crack, 324
Norton Shaw, 303
Parry, 25, 266
Rawson, 43, 49
Richardson, 339
Ramsay, 325
Carl Ritter, 337
Sabine, densely packed with ice, 34, 335, 337
Sheridan, extremity of, ice packed heavily against point of, 50
to Cape Hecla, 177
Stanton, 324
Summer, 39, 40
Sumner, 321
Union, 40, 166
Wilkes, 36, 304
York, 16, 21, 22, 269
Celebration, July 4th, 215
Cestus, 369
Chart, notes for, 314
Channels, Kennedy and Robeson, 36
Channel pack, contest with, see ice;
very large floes, no leads, 247
Channel, Robeson, 166
Christmas Day, 87
Cirro strata, 133
Clark, Chas., fireman, see personnel of the party under Expedition
Clark, with his Eskimos, 148, 149
Clements Markham Inlet, trip into, 63, 178
condition while crossing, 232
Cliffs, Disco, visible 95 miles away, 19
Clouds, inky, 220
Coast, between Wrangel and Lincoln Bays, 249
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