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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

_Discovery_ Discovery Bay Mount Distances, Ross Sea Party Dog-pemmican Dogs Dominican gulls Dudley Docker Mr. _Dudley Docker_ (boat) Dunlop Island Dump Camp Eclipse of moon Elephant Island _Emma_ Empire Day celebrations _Encyclopædia Britannica_ Enderby Land _Endurance_ abandoned beset crushed sunk Erebus Mount Expedition ships first made public Mawson Scott Shackleton Swedish Falkland Islands Wireless listened for Farthest South Scott’s Filchner Financial help, appeal for failure to materialize promised Fish, dead from sea-leopard new species Föhn effect Fortuna Bay Glacier Franklin Island Galley Gallipoli Garrard, Mr. Cherry Gaze Girling tractor-motor Glacier Bay Tongue _Glasgow_, H.M.S. Gold Graham Land Greenstreet Grytviken Gunner (dog) Half-way Camp Harding, Mr. _Harpoon_ Hayward Hercules (dog) Hobart Holness Hooke Hope Bay Mountain Howe Hudson Hurley Hurtado, Admiral Muñoz Hussey Husvik Hut, Cape Evans Cape Royds Elephant Island at Hut Point; Hut Point Ice-blink Ice-hole Inaccessible Island _Instituto de Pesca_ Jack Jaeger sleeping-bags James Joinville Land Joyce Kavenagh Kelvin sounding machine Kerr Khyber Pass Killer whales King Haakon Bay King George V, flag to inspect _Endurance_ telegram from telegram to Lambton, Miss Elizabeth Dawson Lamps Larkman Leap Year Day Leith Lucas sounding machine Luitpold Land _Lusitania_ Mackintosh Macklin Macquarie Island Magnetic Pole storm variation Magellan Straits Marston Mauger McCarthy McDonald, Allen McIlroy McLeod McMurdo Sound McNab, Dr. McNeish Meteorology Midwinter’s Day celebrations Minna Bluff Mirage Montevideo Morell Land Morell’s Farthest South Motor crawler sledge tractor Mount Haddington Melbourne Murchison Sabine Mugridge Mutton Island New South Greenland New Year Island New Zealand Nigger (dog) _Nimrod_ Ninnis Nordenskjold Ice Tongue North Polar Basin Norwegian Whalers Nurse Cavell Orde-Lees _Orita_ _Orwell_ Oscar (dog) Pack-ice described _See also_ Pressure Paddies Pardo, Captain Luis Paulet Island Peak Berg Foreman Peggotty Camp Penguins Adelie Emperor Gentoo Ringed Peter (dog) Petrels _See also_ Bird life Pinkey (dog) _Plankton_ Pompey (dog) Porpoises Port Chalmers Positions Possession Bay Islands Potash and Perlmutter Pram Point Pressure in Ross Sea in Weddell Sea _See also_ Pack-ice Prince George Island Programme of Expedition Public Schools Punta Arenas Pups Queen Alexandra _Radiolaria_ Rain Rats on South Georgia Rampart Berg Razorback Island Reeling Berg Refraction, _See_ Atmospheric effects Reindeer Richards Rickenson Rio Secco Rocky Mountain Depot Ross Island Sea Sea Party Royal Geographical Society Ryan, Lieut. R.N.R. Safety Camp Saint (dog) Sally (dog) Samson (dog) Sanders Island Santiago Saunders, Edward Scientific observations commenced work proposed _Scotia_ Scott Sea-elephants Sea-leopard Seal blubber meat Seals Crab-eater Ross Weddell Semaphore for sledging parties on bridge Shags Shackleton, Sir E. Shoaling, of sea-floor Shore party Sledging parties, proposed Snapper (dog) Snow Hill Soldier (dog) Sorlle, Mr. South Georgia Orkneys Sandwich Group _Southern Sky_ Spencer-Smith Splitting ice-floes Stained Berg Stancomb Wills, Dame Janet _Stancomb Wills_ (boat) Stenhouse Stevens Stove Stromness Sue (dog) Sun disappears _See also_ Atmospheric effects Swell Temperature, air sea Tent Island Tents orderlies Terns, _See also_ Bird life Terriss, Ellaline “The Ritz” Thom, Captain Thompson Tide-rip Tobacco substitutes Towser (dog) Transcontinental party Tripp, Mr. Leonard Talloch, Mr. Turk’s Head Uruguayan Government Vahsel Bay Victoria Mountains Vincent Vinie’s Hill Virol Wave, enormous Weddell Sea ice conditions in plateau winds in Weather at Cape Evans at Elephant Island at Ocean Camp at Patience Camp, _See also_ Temperatures Western Mountains Whales blue humpback and finner seen sperm Wilhelmina Bay Willywaw Winston Churchill Wild, Ernest Frank Wordie Worsley Wreckage at South Georgia Yaks _Yelcho_ Young, Mr. Douglas Young Island