INDEX

Abruzzi, Duke of, [114], [126]
Abu Zaid, [40]
Abyssinia, [44], [54], [108], [110], [111]
Adam of Bremen, [36]
Adams, William, [71]
Adare, Cape, [131]
Adélie Land, [130], [133]
Ægean civilisation, [4]
Æschylus, [10]
Afghanistan, [115]
Africa, [5], [7], [13], [27], [31], [39], [50], [51], [53], [55], [57], [99], [113],[107–14]
African Association, [108], [146]
Agartharchides of Cnidus, [23]
Agassiz, Alexander, [144]
Agrippa, M. Vipsanius, [25]
Alaska, [78]
Albert Edward, Lake, [113]
—— Nyanza, [111], [113]
Alexander Island, [128]
—— the Great, [20]
Alfred the Great, [37]
Alleghany Mts., [67]
Almagro, Diego, [66]
Al-Mamun, Caliph, [39]
Alonzo, Martin, [59]
Amazon, River, [62], [66], [67]
America. See [North America], [South America]
Amundsen, Capt Roald, [127], [133]
Amur, River, [72]
Anaximander, [9]
Anaximenes, [9]
Andrada, Antonio, [72]
Andree, [137]
Angelus, Jacobus, [54]
Angola, [53]
Antarctic regions, [81], [128–134]
Antilles, [61]
Antillia, [56], [58]
Antipodes, [23], [36]
Antœci, [23]
Antonine Itinerary, [26]
Apianus, Peter, [97], [99], [104]
Arabia, [13], [73], [117]
Arabs, [39]
Arctic regions, [44], [74], [122]
Aristagoras, [9]
Aristotle, [19]
Arkansas, [69]
Arrowsmith, Aaron, [104]
Asia, [9], [13], [20], [27], [39], [42], [71], [72]
Asia Minor, [7], [8], [71]
Astrolabe, [90]
Atlantis, [18], [56]
Australia, [69], [83], [85], [87], [89], [117–21]
Avila, Gil Gonçalez de, [64]
Azores, [50], [52]
Azov, Sea of, [14], [30]
Babbage, [120]
Babylonia, [3]
Bäcklund, O., [138]
Bacon, Roger, [43]
Baeyer, [77], [136]
Baffin Bay, [123]
—— Land, [77]
——, William, [77], [123]
Bahr-el-Ghazal, [114]
Baker, Samuel, [111]
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, [64]
Balleny, John, [129]
Baltic Sea, [21], [30], [41]
Baluchistan, [115]
Barents, William, [79]
Barlæus, Kaspar, [84]
Barrow, Pt., [123]
——, Sir John, [122]
Barth, H., [109]
Bartholomew, John, [138]
Bass, George, [117]
—— Strait, [117]
Batavia, [87]
Beatus, [39]
Beaufort Sea, [128]
Beaumont, Elie de, [139]
Bede, the Venerable, [36]
Behaim, Martin, [57]
Behm, [137]
Bellingshausen, Fabian von, [89], [128]
Bengal, [104]
Benin, Bight of, [6]
Bent, J. T., [117]
Berghaus, H., [137]
Bering Strait, [80], [122]
——, Vitus, [80]
Berlinghieri, Francesco, [55]
Bertrand, M., [139]
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, [136]
Best, Capt., [71]
Bianco, Andrea, [56]
Bienewitz, Philip, [102]
Biogeography, [140]
Biscoe Is., [129]
——, John, [129]
Blache, Vidal de la, [138]
Black Sea, [14], [30], [49]
Blue Nile, [103]
Blunt, Wilfrid, [117]
Bonvalot, [116]
Borchgrevink, C. E., [131]
Bornu, [109]
Borough, Stephen, [79]
Borysthenes, River, [14]
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, [85]
Bouguer, Pierre, [96]
Bouvet Is., [86], [131]
——, Lozier, [86]
Bower, Hamilton, [116]
Boyle, George, [73]
Brahmaputra, River, [115]
Brazil, [56], [60], [62], [66], [82]
Britain, [5], [6], [21], [30], [37], [118]
Brooke, J. M., [142]
Bruce, James, [108]
——, W. S., [132]
Brunel, Olivier, [79]
Buache, P., [101]
Buchanan, T. Y., [143]
Burckhardt, J. L., [117]
Burke, Robert, [121]
Burroughs, Christopher, [71]
Burrus, [101]
Burton, R. F., [110], [117]
Button, Sir Thomas, [77]
Byron, John, [85]
Cabot, John, [61], [75]
——, Sebastian, [79]
Cabral, [62]
Cadamosto, Aloise, [52]
Cæsar, Julius, [24]
Caillié, R., [109]
California, Gulf of, [65]
Cameron, Lovett, [113]
Canada, [67]
Canary Islands, [18], [27], [52]
Cano, Sebastian del, [65]
Canton, [69]
Cão, Diogo, [53]
Cape of Good Hope, [5], [53], [68]
Cape Verde Islands, [52]
Carpentaria, Gulf of, [70], [118]
Carpenter, Nathanael, [105]
Carpini, Joannes de Plano, [42]
Carteret, Philip, [85]
Carthage, [5]
Cartier, Jacques, [66]
Cartography. See [Map-making]
Caspian Sea, [30], [39], [49], [71]
Cassini, J. and D., [95], [104]
Catalan map, [50]
Catalonians, [49]
Cavendish, Sir Thomas, [67]
Ceylon, [31], [50], [57]
Chad, Lake, [109]
Challenger, [130], [143]
Champlain, Samuel, [67]
Chancellor, Richard, [79]
Charcot, J. B., [132]
Chelyuskin, Lieut. T., [80]
Chile, [66]
China, [3], [30], [34], [43], [44], [71], [117]
Chorography, [104]
Chronometer, [97]
Chrysoloras, Emanuel, [54]
Cintra, Pedro de, [52]
Clapperton, H., [109]
Clarke, Capt., [122]
Cluverius, Philip, [105]
Coats Land, [132], [133]
Cochin-China, [72]
Columbus, Christopher, [56], [59]
Compass, [48]
Condamine, Charles de la, [96]
Congo Free State, [113]
—— River, [53], [103], [113], [114]
Cook Archipelago, [88]
Cook, Captain James, [78], [87], [103], [122]
Coppermine River, [78]
Cordova, Hernandez de, [64]
Cortereal, Gaspar, [75]
Cortez, [65]
Covilhão, Pedro de, [53]
Crates of Mallus, [23]
Crete, [4], [18]
Cross-staff, [91]
Crozet Is., [86]
Cruquius, M. S., [101]
Crusades, [42], [48]
Cuba, [61]
Cunningham, [119]
Cyrus, [17]
Dahna, [117]
d’Ailly, Cardinal, [56]
Dampier, William, [85]
Danes, [125], [127]
Danfrie, [93]
D’Anville, J. B. B., [103], [108]
Darling, River, [119]
Darwin, Charles, [146]
——, Sir George, [139]
David, T. W, E., [132]
Davis, Edward, [84]
——, John, [70], [77]
—— Strait, [77]
Deasy, Capt. H. H. P., [116]
Debes, [137]
Delisle, [9], [103]
De Long, [127]
Democritus of Abdera, [17]
d’Entrecasteaux, [89]
Desbarres, J. F. W., [103]
Desideri, Fra, [72]
Dezhnev, Simon, [80]
Diaz, Bartolomeu, [53], [82]
Dicæarchus of Messana, [20]
Dicuil, [36]
Digges, Leonard, [93]
Diopler, [90]
Dominica, [61]
Donis. See [Germanus]
Doughty, Charles, [117]
Drake, Sir Francis, [66], [84]
Drygalski, E. von, [132]
Dufour, Gen. H., [135]
Dupain-Triel, [101]
Duperrey, Louis, [89]
D’Urville, Dumont, [89], [129]
Dutch East India Co., [69]
Earth, figure of, [19], [22], [34], [36], [43], [81], [90], [94], [104]
Easter Island, [84]
East India Co., [70], [115]
—— Indies, [68]
Egypt, [3], [7]
Elephantine, [16]
Emin Pasha, [113]
Enderby Bros., [129]
—— Land, [129]
Ephemerides, [97]
Ephorus of Cyme, [18]
Equator, [21], [62]
Eratosthenes, [22]
Erebus, Mt., [130], [131]
Eric the Red, [75]
Erichsen, L. Mylius, [127]
Ericsson, Leif, [75]
Eskimo, [2]
Eudoxus of Cnidus, [19]
—— of Cyzicus, [24]
Europe, [9], [13], [14], [27], [39]
Europus, [10]
Everest, Sir George, [135]
Eyre, [120]
Faeröe Islands, [37]
Fernandez, John, [52]
Fernel, Jean, [93]
Filchner, Lieut., [133]
Firmianus, Lactantius, [34]
Flinders, Matthew, [117]
Florida, [64], [66]
Forbes, Edward, [143]
Forel, F. A., [141]
Forrest, Sir J., [121]
Fortunate Isles, [27]
Franklin, J., [122], [123]
Franz Josef Land, [125], [127]
Freycinet, J. C. D. de, [89]
Freyre, Fra, [72]
Frisius, Gemma, [97], [104]
Frisland, [76]
Frobisher, Martin, [76]
—— Strait, [77]
Gaetano, [88]
Gama, Vasco da, [68]
Gambia, River, [108]
Ganges, River, [115]
Gastaldi, [103]
Geodesy, [138]
Geomorphology, [139]
Germanus, Nicolaus, [55]
Gerrits, Dirk, [84]
Giles, Ernest, [121]
Gill, Sir David, [138]
Glaser, E., [117]
Gnomon, [9], [90]
Gold Coast, [52]
Gomez, Diego, [52]
Goyder, [120]
Graham Land, [129]
Grant, T. A., [111]
—— Land, [128]
Graphometer, [93]
Great Australian Bight, [118]
—— Ice Barrier, [130], [131]
Greeks, [8]
Greeley, Lieut. A. W., [126]
Green, Lowthian, [139]
Greenland, [37], [75], [76], [80], [124], [126], [127], [128]
Gregory, [121]
——, A. C., [120]
——, J. W., [139]
Grenard, F., [116]
Griesbach, L., [116]
Grinnell Land, [124], [126]
Grisalva, Juan de, [64]
Haiti, [61]
Halévy, J., [117]
Hall, Charles, [124]
Halley, E., [101]
Hanno, [6]
Harrison, John, [97]
Hausaland, [109]
Hawaii, [88]
Hawkins, Captain, [70]
Hayton, [43]
Hearne, Samuel, [78]
Hecatæus of Miletus, [11]
Hedin, Sven, [116]
Henry the Navigator, [51]
Herodotus, [5], [11], [23], [30]
Himilco, [6]
Hiort, Dr. Johan, [144]
Hipparchus, [22], [25]
Hispaniola. See [Haiti]
Hollar, [102]
Homann, [101]
Homer, [7]
Honduras, [61]
Hooker, Sir Joseph, [146]
Horn, Cape, [67], [82], [84]
Houtman, Cornelis, [69]
Howell, [119]
Huber, C., [117]
Hudson Bay, [67], [76], [80]
—— Bay Co., [78], [123]
——, Henry, [76], [80]
Humboldt, Alexander von, [67], [144]
Hume, Hamilton, [119]
Huygens, Christiaan, [94]
Ibn Batuta, [46]
Ibn Haukal, [40]
Iceland, [37], [75]
Idrisi, [40]
India, [3], [13], [20], [31], [44], [45], [50], [54], [57], [68], [69], [71], [115]
Indicopleustes, Cosmas, [35]
Inglefield, Captain, [124]
International Council for the Study of the Sea, [144]
—— Geographical Congress, [138]
Ireland, [30], [37], [75], [102]
Irtish, River, [72]
Istakhri, [40]
Ister, River, [14]
Jackman, Charles, [79]
Jackson, Frederick, [126]
Jäderin, E., [137]
Jamaica, [61]
Jan Mayen Island, [80]
Japan, [69], [70]
Jefferys, Thomas, [104]
Jenkinson, Anthony, [71]
Jerusalem, [39], [49]
Jesuits, [72]
John of Montecorvino, [45]
Johnston, W. and A. K., [138]
Jones Sound, [127]
Junker, W., [114]
Justinian, Emperor, [34]
Kaiser Wilhelm II. Land, [132]
Kalahari Desert, [112]
Kamchatka, [72], [89]
Kane, Elisha Kent, [124]
Kant, Immanuel, [144]
Kara Sea, [79]
Karlsefne, Thorfinn, [75]
Kaulbars, Baron H., [116]
Kemp, John, [129]
Kennedy, [120], [123]
Kenya, Mt., [110], [113]
Kepler, [97]
Kerguelen Is., [86]
Kerguelen-Trémarec, Yves de, [86]
Kiepert, H., [137]
Kilimanjaro, Mt., [110], [113]
Kimberley, [121]
King, Capt. P. P., [118]
King Edward Land, [130], [131]
King George Sound, [117]
Kircher, A., [101]
Kola Peninsula, [79]
Koldewey, [126]
Kotzebue, Otto von, [89]
Kozlov, P. K., [116]
Krapf, L., [110]
Kremer, Gerhard. See [Mercator]
Krishna, [115]
Krusenstern, Adam, [89]
Kublai Khan, [43]
Labrador, [75]
Lacerda, Francisco de, [109]
Lachlan, River, [118], [119]
Laing, A., [9], [109]
Lambton, Col. W., [135]
Lancaster, James, [70]
—— Sound, [123]
Langhans, [137]
Lapparent, A. de, [139]
Lapworth, C., [139]
Latitude, [21], [97]
Lauder, Richard, [109]
Leachman, [117]
Lefroy, H. M., [121]
Lehmann, J. G., [101]
Leichhardt, [120]
Lemaire, Jacob, [84]
Leon, Juan Ponce de, [63]
Le Testu, Guillaume, [69]
Lhasa, [72], [115]
Limnology, [141]
Littledale, St. George, [116]
Liverpool Plains, [119]
Livingstone, David, [112]
Longitude, [97]
Loubet Land, [132]
Louisiana, [67]
Louis Philippe Land, [129]
Love, A. E. H., [139]
Lualaba, River, [112]
Luque, Hernando de, [66]
McClintock, [124]
McClure, [124]
Mackenzie, Alexander, [78]
—— River, [78]
McKinlay, T., [121]
McMurdo Sound, [132]
Macquarie, River, [118], [119]
Madagascar, [44], [57]
Madeira, [50], [52]
Magalhães, Fernao de, [64], [82]
Magellan. See [Magalhães]
Magnetic Pole, [123], [127]
Magnus, Albertus, [43]
Mahomed Ali, [110]
Malacca, [68]
Malay Archipelago, [44], [57], [68], [69], [70]
—— Peninsula, [5]
Mam, Island of, [56]
Manchuria, [89]
Mandeville, Sir John, [45]
Maoris, [2]
Map-making, [2], [9], [12], [37], [41], [46], [54], [98], [137], [145]
Marianne Islands, [65]
Marinus of Tyre, [26], [40]
Marion-Dufresne, [86]
Marion Is., [86]
Markham, [126]
——, Albert, [124]
Marquesas Is., [83]
Martianus Capella, [34]
Masailand, [113]
Masudi, [40]
Maupertuis, P. L. M. de, [96]
Mauro, Fra, [50], [55]
Maury, Matthew F., [14], [20]
Mawson, Dr. D., [132], [133]
Mediterranean, the, [3], [5], [37], [39], [48], [58], [143]
Melville Island, [123]
Mendana, [83]
Mercator, [98], [102], [103]
Meridian, [22], [41]
Meroe, [16]
Mexico, [64], [65]
Middleton, Christopher, [78]
Mill, H. R., [106]
Mitchell, Sir Thomas, [120]
Moeris, Lake, [3]
Moluccas, [60], [69]
Monaco, Prince of, [144]
Mongolia, [115]
Moseley, H. N., [143]
Mota, Antonio de, [69]
Mountains of the Moon, [31]
Muhammad ben Musa, [90]
Münster, Sebastian, [105]
Murray, River, [119]
——, Sir John, [141], [143]
Murrumbidgee, River, [119]
Muscovy Company, [79], [80]
Musil, [117]
Nachtigal, G., [114]
Nain Singh, [115]
Nansen, Fridtjof, [126]
Nares, Sir George, [124], [143]
Nasamonian youths, the, [16]
Natal, [68]
Nathorst, [127]
Nearchus, [20]
Necho, [5]
Neckam, Alexander, [48]
New Caledonia, [88]
Newfoundland, [75]
New Granada, [66]
New Guinea, [69], [83], [87]
New Hebrides, [83], [85], [88]
New Pomerania, [84]
New Siberian Is., [127]
New South Wales, [117]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [94], [105], [144]
New Zealand, [70], [83], [87]
Nicaragua, [64]
Niebuhr, Carsten, [73]
Niger, River, [16], [108], [109]
Nile, River, [16], [31], [37], [49], [108], [110], [111]
Nordenskiöld, A. E., [125], [126]
Norfolk Is., [88]
Norsemen, [37]
North America, [2], [61], [67], [75]
North American Indians, [2]
North Cape, [75]
North-East Passage, [78]
North-West Passage, [76], [127]
Norwood, Richard, [93]
Nova Scotia, [75]
Novaya Zemlya, [72], [75], [80]
Ob, River, [80]
Oceanography, [141]
Odoric, [45], [71]
Œcumene, [22], [23]
Ohio, River, [66]
Okhotsk, Sea of, [72]
Orellana, Francisco de, [66]
Orinoco, River, [61], [145]
Orkney Islands, [37]
Orléans, Prince Henry of, [116]
Orontius, [82]
Ortelius, [65], [102]
Oudney, W., [109]
Oxley, Lieut., [118]
Pacific Ocean, [64], [65], [82], [83], [87]
Palestine, [48]
Palgrave, W. G., [117]
Pamirs, [115]
Paradise, [39]
Paris, Matthew, [48]
Park, Mungo, [108]
Parmenides, [9]
Parry (Arctic), [122], [126]
—— (Australia), [120]
Pascal, [93]
Paulmyer, Sieur de Gonneville, [69]
Paumotu Is., [84], [85]
Pausanias, [32]
Payer, Lieut. Julius, [125]
Payva, Alphonso, [53]
Peary, Robert E., [126], [127]
Peking, [69]
Penna, Orazio della, [72]
Periodos (circuit of the earth), [12]
Periœci, [23]
Periplus, [12], [18]
—— of the Erythræan Sea, [3]
Pérouse, J. F. D. de la, [89]
Persia, [71]
Persian Gulf, [20]
Perthes, Justus, [137]
Peru, [3], [66]
Peschel, Oscar, [145]
Pet, Arthur, [79]
Peter Is., [128]
Petermann, A., [137]
Peutinger Table, [26]
Pevtsov, [116]
Phasis, River, [11]
Philip, George, [138]
Philippine Islands, [65]
Phipps, Captain, [122], [142]
Phœnicians, [4]
Picard, Jean, [94], [101]
Pigafetta, F., [99]
Pines, Isle of, [88]
Pinzon, Vicente Yañez, [59], [62]
Pizarro, Francisco, [66]
Plane-table, [93]
Plato, [18]
Pliny the Elder, [26]
Polo, Marco, [43], [69]
Polybius of Megalopolis, [23]
Polyhistor, Julius Solinus, [35]
Pomponius Mela, [26]
Pont, Timothy, [102]
Portolano maps, [48], [50], [55]
Portuguese, [51], [55], [60], [68], [79], [108]
Posidonius the Stoic, [23], [72]
Potamology, [141]
Potanin, [116]
Prester John, [53]
Pretorius, Jean, [93]
Prjevalsky, Nicolai, [116]
Procopius, [34]
Ptolemy, [26], [39], [54], [72]
Putte, Samuel van der, [72]
Pygmies, [7], [17]
Pythagoras, [8]
Pytheas of Massilia, [21]
Quadrant, [91], [94]
Queensland, [119], [120]
Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de, [83]
Rae, Dr. John, [124]
Ramsden, [97]
Ratzel, Friedrich, [145]
Ravenstein, A., [137]
Rawling, Capt. G. C., [116]
Rebmann, T., [110]
Red Sea, [5], [35]
Regiomontanus, [97]
Rennell, Maj. James, [104]
Retes, Inigo Ortes de, [83]
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, [17]
Rhins, Dutreuil de, [116]
Rhodesia, [5]
Richard of Haldingham, [48]
Richardson, Sir John, [124]
Richer, Jean, [94]
Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von, [117], [145]
Rio de la Plata, [62]
Ripon Falls, [111]
Ritter, Karl, [145]
Roborovsky, [116]
Rockhill, W. W., [116]
Roe, J. S., [121]
Roggeveen, Jacob, [85]
Rohlfs, G., [114]
Romans, [24]
Rome, [19]
Rosen, P. G., [138]
Ross, Capt., [122], [123], [142]
——, James Clark, [123], [142]
——, Sir James, [130]
Roy, General, [103], [104]
Royal Geographical Soc., [146]
Russians, [72], [78], [80], [116]
Rusticiano of Pisa, [44]
Ruwenzori Mts., [113]
Sadlier, Capt. G. F., [117]
Sahara Desert, [52], [109], [114]
St. Basil the Great, [34]
St. Brandon, Island of, [58]
St. Francis Xavier, [69]
St. Lawrence River, [66]
St. Martin, Vivien de, [138]
Samoa, [85]
San Salvador, [60]
Sanson, Nicolas, [99]
Saxton, Christopher, [102]
Scandinavia, [7], [21], [30], [37], [49], [58], [75]
Scaph, [90]
Schouten, Willem Cornelis, [84]
Schrader, F., [138]
Schweinfürth, Georg, [114]
Scoresby, William, [81], [126], [142]
Scotland, survey, [103]
Scott, Capt. R. F., [131], [133]
Scroggs, John, [78]
Scylax of Caryanda, [12]
Semliki River, [113]
Senegal, [109]
Shackleton, Sir E., [131], [132]
Shetland Islands, [37]
Shirley, Sir Anthony and Robert, [71]
Siberia, [44], [72], [80]
Sicily, [7]
Sidon, [7]
Sierra Leone, [52]
Sission, Jonathan, [97]
Smith, William, [128]
——, Leigh, [125]
—— Sound, [78], [124], [128]
Snell, Willibrord, [93]
Society Is., [85], [87]
Sokoto, [109]
Solis, Juan Diaz de, [62]
Somaliland, [110]
Soto, Hernandez de, [66]
South America, [56], [62], [66], [67], [82]
Southern Continent, [81], [83]
South Orkney Is., [128]
South Shetland Is., [84], [128]
Spaniards, [60], [63]
Speed, John, [102]
Speke, T. H., [110]
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Stanford, Edward, [138]
Stanley, H. M., [112], [113]
Stefansson, [128]
Stein, Sir M. A., [116]
Stieler, A., [137]
Stony Desert, [120]
Strabo, [18], [24], [141]
Stuart, J. M., [121]
Sturt, Charles, [119], [120]
Submarine cable, [142]
Sudan, [114]
Suess, E., [139]
Suleiman, [40]
Supan, A., [137], [139]
Surveying, [93], [102], [135]
Sverdrup, [127]
Swartha, Claudius Clavus, [55]
Sydney, [117]
Syene, [22]
Syria, [71]
Tachard, P., [72]
Tahiti, [87]
Tanais, River, [14], [21], [37]
Tanganyika, Lake, [111], [112]
Tasman, Abel Janszoon, [70], [83]
Tasmania, [70], [117]
Terror, Mt., [130], [131]
Texeira, Pedro, [67]
Thales of Miletus, [8]
Theodolite, [97]
Theophanes of Mytilene, [24]
Theophrastus of Lesbos, [20]
Thompson, Sir C. Wyville, [143]
Thomson, Joseph, [113]
Thule, [21]
Thury, Cassini de, [104]
Tibet, [44], [71], [73]
Tierra del Fuego, [67], [84]
Timbuktu, [109]
Toll, Baron, [127]
Tongan Archipelago, [84], [88]
Torrens, Lake, [120]
Torres, [70], [83]
—— Strait, [83]
Torricelli, [93]
Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzi, [56]
Traverse Is., [128]
Trinidad, [61]
Triquetum, [90]
Turkestan, [115]
Turnagain, Cape, [123]
Turner, Capt., [73]
Tyre, [4]
Uganda, [111]
Ugyen Gyatso, [115]
Unyamwezi, [111]
Varenius, Bernhard, [105]
Vernier, François, [93]
Vesconte, Petrus, [49]
Vespucci, Amerigo, [62]
Victoria, [119]
—— Falls, [112]
—— Land, [130], [133]
—— Nile, [111]
—— Nyanza, [111], [113]
Vinci, Leonardo da, [82]
Vineland, [37], [75]
Virgilius, Bishop of Salzburg, [36]
Vlamingh, William de, [70]
Volga, River, [30]
Wagner, Hermann, [145]
Waldseemüller, Martin, [63], [103]
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Warburton, [121]
Watling Island, [60]
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Welle, River, [114]
Werner, [99]
Western Australia, [121]
West Indies, [60]
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—— Sea, [75], [79]
Wiggins, Capt. Joseph, [125]
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William of Rubruquis, [42]
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, [79]
Wills, William, [121]
Wilson, [131]
Wissmann, [113]
Wright, Edward, [99]
Xenophon, [17]
Yenisei, River, [80], [125]
Yucatan, [64]
Zambezi, River, [5], [109], [112]
Zanzibar, [44], [57], [110]
Zeno, Nicolo, [76]
Zoogeography, [140]

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