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logy, 234; discovery of rookery, 252, 268; care of young, 269; eagerness to sit, 270
- Pennell, Harry L. L., liii, 3, 4, 8, 565, 572
- Petrel, Antarctic, 63
- , black-breasted, 13
- , giant, 50
- , snowy, xix, 50
- , white-breasted, 13
- Plankton, 6, 69
- Pole, South, Scott's final arrangements, 379; altitude, 502; Amundsen's arrival, 506; Scott's arrival, 506; characteristics of area, 508
- Polheim (camp), 507
- Polychaete worms, 568
- Ponies, Manchurian, on board ship, 49; their uses, 88; effect of blizzards on, 113; Scott's care of, 114; behaviour on ice, 141; fodder, 179; exercising, 190; treatment and diseases, 218; Scott's decision, 327; weights lightened, 331; difficulties on march, 342; destroyed, 349
- Ponting, Herbert G., 90, 173, 213, 320, 429
- Portuguese man-of-war, 7
- Pram, 17, 19
- Pram Point, 98, 162, 466, 566
- Priestley, Raymond E., liii, 130, 558
- Ptomaine poisoning, lvii
- Pulleyn, Lieut. George, 410
- Ramp, the, 168
- Rennick, H. E. de P., 3, 565
- Resolution, the, xviii
- Roberts, Cape, lviii, 425
- Ross, Sir James C., xxii, 11, 12
- Ross Island, xxiii
- Sea, xxiii, xxviii, xlii
- Royal Society Range, 493
- Royds, Cape, xlv, xlvii, 98, 183, 461, 559
- Sabine, Mt., xxiii, 80
- Safety Camp, 110, 122, 136, 306
- St. Paul, island, 33
- Scott, Capt. R. F., on early explorations, xx; on Ross, xxvii; first expedition, 1901–1904, xxxiii; excellence of equipment, lxii; commencement of second expedition, 1; visits South Trinidad, 1901, 12; joins Terra Nova, 31; Depôt Journey, 104; character and achievements, 200, 573; paper on Barrier, 214; trip to Western Mountains, 306; Barrier stage of Polar Journey, 319 seq.; Beardmore Glacier Journey, 350 seq.; Plateau Journey, 368; strength of team, 377; alteration in units, 379; tries new sledge runners, 457; body discovered, 480; burial, 483; his account of journey to Pole, 496 seq.; return from Pole, 511 seq.; message to the public, 541; drawbacks of his plan, 545
- 'Scott's Last Expedition,' lix
- Scurvy, lvii, 215, 393
- Sea, freezing of, 448
- Sea-cucumber, 568
- Sea-leopard, 65, 66
- Sea-urchins, 567
- Seal, 66, 67, 162
- , crab-eating, 67, 68
- , Ross, 66
- , Weddell, 66, 67, 161, 464, 466
- Shackleton, Sir Ernest, xxxvii, xlvii
- Shambles Camp, 349, 502
- Simon's Bay, 31
- Simpson, G. C., 4, 215, 306 seq., 429, 502, 504
- Ski, use of, 355, 458, 498
- Ski Slope, 152
- Skua gulls, 464, 499
- Skua Lake, 95, 182
- Sledge meters, 385, 417, 461
- runners, Nansen on, 456, 457
- Sledges, Nansen's innovation, xxx; motor, 88, 92, 321
- Smoking, limitations on, 195
- Snow-blindness, 353
- South Bay, 447
- 'South Polar Times,' 437, 445
- South Trinidad, landing, 13; bird life, 13, 14; land crabs, 14; difficulty of leaving, 15, 18
- Southern Barrier Depôt, 338
- Sverdrup, O. N., xxx
- Taylor, Griffith, lxi, 215, 307, 308, 317, 429
- Temperature, of polar plateau, 505; effect on Polar party, 553
- Tent Island, 186, 439, 566
- Terra Australis, belief in existence of, xviii
- Terra Nova Bay, 493
- Terra Nova, the, on Scott's first expedition, xlv; commencement of voyage, 1910, 1; crew, 2; arrangement of cabins, 3; defects in pumps, 5, 28; plankton nets, 6; fire on board, 6; biological observations, 7; lack of fresh water, 8; refits at Lyttelton, 44; overloading, 50; suitability for ice work, 73; anchorage, 10 1; arrival with mails, 409; defects, 548; expedition finally relieved, 564; trawling, 567
- Terror, Mt., xxiii, xxiv, xli, 252, 558
- Terror, the, xxii, xxix
