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
velocity of floes, 47
ice window (in igloo), 105
winter’s ice still intact, 40
young ice across the lead, 144
young ice, 265, 266
(formed), 298
Ice-bergs, see Narrow shaves from, under Ice; also see Field of, under
Ice
ice boats, 359
ice-cap, 129
ice-foot, 39, 301
edge of, 55
Ice-foot, 306, 320, 340, 341
Alpine in character, 303
a broad deep lake, 239
a trail along, 322
found by Egerton, Rawson and Parry, 339
hewing road along, 322
reaching from (reaching low-sloping “spit”), 224
Igloos, 303, 319, 382
abreast of Cape Albert, 337
at Hecla, 101
built of floe, 105
building of, 125
“Christmas,” 36
Henson’s, 123
first, 102
Henson’s igloo shattered, 125
snow, 306
Igludiahni, 29
Inaloo, 384
Independence Bay, 161
Inlet, Clements Markham, 56
Intermediate Point, difficulties encountered, 214
Inueto, 101
Island, Bache, 299
Beaumont, 154
Bellot, 307
Britannia, 150
Crozier, 39, 233
Duck, (whaler’s lookout on summit), 21
Eagle, 6
Ellison, 150
Franklin, 39
Hare, 20
Harvard, 26
Herbert, 26
Josephine Peary, 26
Joe, 39
Littleton, 33
Meteorite (Eskimo taken aboard), 21, 22
Norman Lockyer, 298
Red, (passed afternoon of second day out), 15
Saunders (bird cliffs), 25
Stephenson, 161
Sukkertoppen, 19
Ward Hunt, 184
Williams, 174, 235
Ittibloo, 25
Jesup, Morris K., 288, 355
Founder of the Expedition, 11
President of the Peary Arctic Club, 282
Jesup Land, 189
attainment of, 203
Journey, down Baffin’s Bay, 270
July 30th, reached the S.S. _Roosevelt_, 240
Kamiks, 240, 308
Kangerdlooksoah, 25, 317
deep pastures of, 26
Kane Basin filled with Polar pack, 297
Karnah, 29
six tents located here, 25
Kayak, 388
Kennedy Channel, 306
Kittiwakes, 19
Kolguev, 208
Kookan, landing of Eskimos, 265
Kooletah (deerskin coat), 154
Koolootingwah and Ooblooyah sent to reconnoitre, 196
Kyo, Anangabok (medicine man), 383
with hunting party, 383
Labrador, on the coast of, 16
Lake, a deep blue, 223
Hazen, 56
Lamps, in commission, 63
Large floe, see Ice
Latitude from noon sights, 19, 21
reached, 134
Lead, 126, 343
across Robeson Channel, 40
crossed on young ice, 145
eleven, 131
fifty feet wide, 132
its closing (the “Hudson River”), 118
its extent, 97
young ice cut by, 146
Leaving last camp, 211, 212
Lemming burrows, 199
fauna of Jesup Land, 210
Library, 9
Lieber, Cape, 320
Lincoln Bay, 334
Line of demarcation, 225
Lockwood’s record, 330
Malone, Murtaugh J., asst. engineer, see personnel of the party under
Expedition, 5
Mary Murray Island, 325
Marvin, Ross G., secy. and asst., see personnel of the party under
Expedition, 6
Marvin, 62, 78, 97, 173
his report of musk-oxen, 93
his return with the Eskimos, 93
his report of the _Roosevelt_, 235
his westward compass, 236
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