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INDEX
AAE, see Australasian Antarctic Expedition
absolute magnetic hut, 131, 146–47
acetylene, 159, 169
Adams, Jameson, 52–58, 79–81
Adelaide, 43, 82, 84, 90, 93
Mawson Collection in, 156–57, 267, 305–6
Mawson’s farewell dinner in, 94
Mawson’s homecoming to, 287–88
monoplane flight in, 96, 182
sporting event in, 85, 86
&nb
sp; Adelaide, University of, 15, 43, 84, 90, 297, 300
Mawson’s leaves of absence from, 43, 86
Mawson’s recruitment at, 94, 112, 151, 193
“Adelian Alphabet, An,” 265–66
“Adélie band,” 144
Adelie Blizzard, 262–68
Adélie Land (Terre Adélie), 119, 148, 178, 184, 208, 295, 308
coast of, 111, 120, 125, 187, 190, 294
naming of, 109, 187
see also Cape Denison; Western Base; specific team parties
Adélie Land Meteorite, 184
Ainsworth, George, 103, 106, 148, 170, 253, 298
airplanes, 95–96, 182, 185, 198–99, 294, 301
air-tractor, 96, 124, 127, 161, 170
breakdown of, 182–83
Western Party’s sighting of, 186
Aladdin’s Cave, 178–79, 182, 186–87, 206, 239, 241–44, 298, 310
alcoholism, 156
Alexander, Caroline, 302
alpine rope, see rope, alpine
amputation, 42
Amundsen, Roald, 18, 92, 123, 156, 307
in Bay of Whales, 48, 121–22
huskies donated by, 254, 256–57
North Magnetic Pole observed by, 58
in race to South Pole, 48, 57, 95, 169, 182, 225, 239, 253, 301
Amundsen (dog), 193–99, 252
Anabasis (Xenophon), 281
Anemometer Hill, 131, 146–47
anemometer readings, 134, 138, 159
Antarctica, 15–37, 43–84, 87–89, 108–13
AAE to, see Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Amundsen in, 48, 57, 92, 95, 121–22, 123, 169, 182, 225, 239, 253, 301, 307
appearance of glaciers in, 24
BAE to, see British Antarctic Expedition
Belgica expedition to (1897–99), 156, 262, 271
claiming a piece of, 45, 71, 92, 175, 199, 301
David’s interest in, 39–40
Discovery expedition to, see Discovery expedition
Endurance expedition to (1914–17), 118, 274, 289, 299, 302
French expedition to (1840), 108–9
general outlines of, 92–93
German expedition to (1902), 108, 190, 191–92
Hillary in, 312
map of, 93
Mawson’s pledge to never return to, 84
meteorites in, 184
Norwegian whaling expedition in, 40
photographs in, 71, 133–34, 137, 146
silence of, 16, 198
Wilkes’s expedition to (1840), 108, 109
Antarctic Circle, 93, 117
“Antarctic Land-Discoveries Preceding 1910” (map), 93
anthropologists, 41
anxiety:
about Aurora delay, 201
of Close, 158, 159–60
of Davis, 111, 188
of Moyes, 197–200
in Western Party, 186
Ararat, 291, 292–93
Arctic, 156, 160, 164, 263
Argonauts of the South (Hurley), 303
astronomers, 84
Aurora (AAE ship), 23, 30, 93–100, 102–12, 114–23, 130, 147, 150, 151, 152, 162, 202–8, 229, 246–54, 256, 281–87, 306
AAE success and, 93, 120, 123
cargo unloaded from, 114–17, 205
carousing on, 116
celebration planned for, 216, 222
description of, 93
Hobart departures of, 94, 97, 281, 282
huskies transported on, 19, 94, 95, 99, 106, 112, 130, 165, 252, 254
London-Hobart journey of, 94–95
at Macquarie Island, 97–100, 102–8, 282
Macquarie Island to Antarctica, 108–12
news brought by, 182
planned rendezvous with, 26, 171, 181–82, 186, 188, 189, 200–201, 222, 239, 241–42
in return to Caroline Cove, 107–8
in return to Western Base, 187, 188, 189, 200–201, 203, 204, 244, 246–52
three-day scout of, 206–7
Aurora (sealer ship), 104
Aurora Australis, 51, 263
Aurora Peak, 23, 180, 236, 238
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 15–37, 91–312
ambitions of, 18, 103, 111, 120, 162, 165
base scheme reconfigured for, 111–12
communications in, 97, 103, 106, 111, 131–32, 133, 147–48, 185, 203, 246–47, 252–56, 258–62, 273–78, 280, 281–82
Davis’s assumption of command of, 203
deadline in, 26, 171, 177, 181
debt of, 290, 294, 297
depots laid in, 162, 167, 172, 175, 176, 180, 181, 188, 190, 192, 193–94, 196
electrifying discovery of, 183–84
fundraising for, 89, 91, 93, 94, 96
gear and supplies for, see gear and supplies, AAE
hijinks in, 113, 115–16
interpersonal tensions in, 151–60, 169
lack of rescue plan in, 120
last sledging journey in, 282–84
locomotive innovations in, 95–96
Macquarie Island and, 97–100, 102–8, 111, 116, 131–32, 162, 170, 203, 252–53, 256, 259, 273, 275
Main Base in, see Cape Denison
Mawson’s narrative of, see Home of the Blizzard, The
motivations for, 91–93
naming of, 94
narrative conundrum of, 169–71
neglect of, 18, 294, 299–301
newspaper of, 262–68
organizing of, 93–97
photography of, 100–102, 127, 137, 215, 226
selection of Western Base site in, 117–23
team division in, 18–19, 96–97, 161, 170–71; see also specific parties
team recruitment for, 93–94
Australia, 38–43, 82–86, 89–92, 217, 263, 278
AAE communications with, 97, 103, 147, 203, 276
diet in, 225
expeditions in, 39
Mawson’s immigration to, 18, 38
South, glaciation in, 42–43
Australian Antarctic Division, 294
avalanches, 33
Ayres, Philip, 40, 83, 225, 295, 305
Azimuth Hill, 285
BAE, see British Antarctic Expedition
Bage, Bob “Gadget King”; “Baldy Bob,” 141, 149, 254, 256, 280, 282
Jeffryes’s dementia and, 261, 279
nicknames of, 130
popularity of, 130, 171, 297
selected for second wintering over, 202–5
in Southern Party, 171–81, 208, 283
in World War I, 297, 300
Balleny Islands, 93
Barrier Inlet, 48
Barton, Charles, 83–84
Basel, 296–97
Basilisk (dog), 131
bathing, 141–42
“Bathybia” (Mawson), 263
bats, 41
Bay of Whales, 48, 121–22
Belgica expedition (1897–99), 156, 262, 271
Betli (dog), 27
BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary Company), 85
Bickel, Lennard, 300
Bickerton, Frank, 113, 116, 127, 128, 149, 178, 244–48, 255, 258, 263, 267
cooking of, 256
dynamiting of, 283
Jeffryes’s dementia and, 272, 273, 279
as leader, 170
memorial cross constructed by, 285
penguin wager of, 280, 281
radio and, 147, 254, 259, 270, 273, 276, 277, 278, 280, 281–82
selected for second wintering over, 203–5
in Western Party, 170, 178, 181–88, 204, 208
binoculars, 186, 284
biology, 41, 105, 200
Western Coastal Party and, 189–91
birds, 179, 190, 191
birthday celebrations, 56, 144, 152, 269–70
“Black Sunday” (June 8, 1913), 260
“Black Sunday” (Oct. 13, 1912), 148, 260
Blake, Leslie, 300
blindness, snow, 22, 70, 176, 177, 211
blizzards:
in AAE, 20, 31, 114, 133–34, 138, 139, 145, 148–49, 167, 168, 169, 171, 178, 185, 199, 237, 238, 242, 250, 259, 261, 283, 306
in BAE, 53, 55, 64, 67, 70
photographing of, 133–34
Western Base team and, 167, 168, 169, 199
Western Party and, 185
blubber, 19, 64–65, 130, 133, 140, 201, 249
Blue Mountains, 101
Boat Harbour, 114–17, 124, 131, 132, 138
Boothia Peninsula, 58, 59
boots, 50–51, 52, 68, 73
Borchgrevink, Carsten, 40
Bowers, Birdie, 168, 203
Boyd, Adam, 85
Boyd, Mrs., 86
bridge, 166
British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), 301–2
British Antarctic Expedition (BAE; Nimrod expedition; 1907–09), 40, 43–45, 47–86, 94, 109, 118, 289, 307
area claimed in, 71
base camp in, 49, 55–57, 60, 75
book manufactured by, 263
cairns built in, 63, 67, 74
failure of, 80, 82
first exploratory deed of, 49–56
funding of, 40, 47, 87
impetus for, 47
landfall problems of, 48–49
McMurdo Sound base denied to, 45, 47–48, 87
motorcar in, 57–58, 96, 183
Nimrod rescues in, 76–78, 81, 93
relief party in, 81–82
Shackleton’s confusing instructions in, 59–60, 69, 75
supply depot problem in, 49
trek to South Magnetic Pole in, 57–72, 82–84, 111
trek toward South Pole in, 57–58, 60, 79–80
Wild in, 57–58, 79–82, 94, 118, 163, 164
wintering-over pattern in, 56–57
British Commonwealth, 92, 175
British Empire, 199, 301
Brocklehurst, Philip, 53–56
Broken Hill, 43, 85, 86, 90
Bunger, David, 198–99
Bunger Hills, 198–99
bunks, bunkmates, 125, 127–28, 163, 248, 306
burberry, 37, 146, 306
burberry trousers, loss of, 210, 216–17, 218, 226
burial services, 36, 37, 224
Butter Point, 62, 75
Byrd, Richard E., 199
“cags,” 56–57
cairns, 191, 206, 239–40, 242
of BAE, 63, 67, 74
“calcutta sweep,” 141
cannibalism, 41
Cape Adare, 88–89, 96, 108
Cape Denison (Winter Quarters), 15, 16, 18, 23, 111–21, 124–62, 202–8, 252–85
bunkmates at, 127–28, 248
cargo unloaded at, 114–17, 189
deadline for return to, 26, 171, 177, 181, 208, 222, 229
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