With ski & sledge over Arctic glaciers

by Sir William Martin Conway

[20] The névé of Torell Glacier.

[21] 109 metres. From the context it seems certain that this should be 309 metres, = 1014 feet.

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INDEX

• Advent Bay, [1], [67], [90], [121], [126], [154], [221]
• Adventure Land, [36], [121], [220]
• Agardh Bay, [220]
• Ahlstrand, Cape, [229]
• Andrée and his balloon, [155]
• Atmospherical phenomenon, curious, [180]
• Baldwin, Mr., [67]
• Bar, The, [70]
• Barents Land, [28], [46], [47], [183], [223]
• Barrel-vaults of ice, [51]
• Bear Island, landing on, [191]
• Bernese Oberland, glacier action in the, [210], [213]
• Birds Cape, [224]
• Nesting-places of, [3], [50], [65], [79], [98], [108], [133], [143], [165], [184]
• Blomstrand Harbour, [71], [145]
• Mound, [71], [145]
• Boat, troubles with our, [167]
• Bornemisza, Baron, [154], [155]
• Calving of a glacier, [13], [74], [77], [140], [141]
• Chydenius, Mount, [28], [43]
• Clouds, low-lying, [63], [104], [113], [131], [138], [140]
• Coal Bay, vide [Coles Bay]
• Haven, [71], [147]
• Coles Bay, [68], [221]
• Cookeries, whaling, [151], [160], [162]
• Crevassed glacier, [16], [77], [110], [133]
• Crevasses, Depth of, [143]
• Difficulties with sledges amongst, [16], [132], [133]
• Cross Bay, [10], [71], [151], [218]
• Mountains, [104], [122], [131]
• Crowns, The Three, [72], [85], [109], [116], [119], [120]
• Ascent of one of, [119]
• Glacier, [72], [105], [114], [122]
• De Geer Peak, [21], [22], [23], [48], [50]
• Ascent of, [27]
• Deceptive appearances on snowfields, [24]
• Deer Bay, [71]
• Diadem Peak, Ascent of, [124]
• Dickson Bay, [33], [39], [218], [219]
• Dubbin, Norwegian and other, [49]
• Dunder Bay, [221], [231], [233]
• Dutch Bay, [218]
• Eating-back rivers and glaciers, [210], et seq.
• Ebeltoft’s Haven, [151]
• Edge Land, [223]
• Edlund, Mount, [28], [41]
• Ascent of, [42]
• Eiderdown, [65]
• Ekman Bay, [73], [92], [116], [121], [218]
• Ekstam, Herr, [1], [67]
• Elevation of the land, [59]
• English Bay, [69], [70], [85]
• Equipment, [18]
• Exile Peak, [124]
• Expres, The, [2], [154]
• Fair Foreland, [224]
• Falling ice, [177]
• Fleur-de-Lys Point, [5]
• Fog on snowfield, Puzzling effect of, [31]
• Travelling through, [21], [31], [32], [33], [34]
• Foreland, Prince Charles’, [68], [122], [223]
• Sound, [68], [122], [224]
• Fox Glacier, [221]
• Foxes, [88]
• Fram, Crew of the, [2], [192]
• Garwood, E. J., [1], and passim
• Land, Description of, [56], [57], [58], [212], [219]
• Land, Wide view over interior of, [38], [46]
• Gatty, Ascent by Mr. Victor, [221]
• Glacier, Ice-tunnel in a, [137]
• Phenomena, notable, [51], [111], [128]
• Torrents, [79], [83], [103], [106], [111]
• Cliffs, [9], [77], [141]
• Glaciers, Action of on their beds, [207]
• Advance of, [138]
• Calving, [13], [74], [77], [140], [141]
• Ending in deep water, [10]
• Ending in shallow water must advance, [11]
• That eat back at their heads, [60]
• Goose Glacier, [159], [168], [170], et sqq.
• Haven (Horn Sound), [157], et sqq.
• Islands (Ice Fjord), [64]
• Green Harbour, [220]
• Greenland and Spitsbergen, Contrast between, [36], [61]
• Heat on the snowfields, [87], [100], [108], [130]
• Hedgehog, Ascent of Mount, [170]
• Heley Sound, [44]
• Highway Dome, [91]
• Pass, [90]
• Himalayas, How rivers have “eaten back” in the, [210]
• Hofer Point, [158]
• Horn Glacier, [166]
• Sound, Visit to, [157], et sqq., [225]
• To Bell Sound over Torell Glacier, [225], et sqq.
• Hornsunds Tinder, [121], [165], [170], et sqq., [222], [226], [227]
• Hyperite Hat, [67]
• Icebergs, [141], [142], [145], [147]
• Ice-encrusted rocks, [178]
• Flat below a glacier’s foot, [160]
• Honeycomb, [19], [55], [81]
• Sheets, [36], [37], [206], [207], [216]
• Inland ice, [206], [234]
• King James Land, [89], [96], [218]
• King Karl Island, [223]
• Kings Bay, [70], [138], et sqq.
• Landing in, [74]
• King’s Highway, [72], [76], et sqq., [115]
• Expedition up, [76], et sqq.
• Kittiwake Glacier, [165]
• Klaas Billen Bay, [5], et sqq., [48], [55], [62], et sqq., [219]
• Lakes, Burst Glacier, [53], [100], [137]
• Lerner, Dr., [3]
• Lovén Islands, [72], [141], [143]
• Mount, [45]
• Low Sound, [221]
• Lyell Cape, [231]
• Lyktan, [33]
• Magdalena Bay, [218]
• Mauritius Bay, [218]
• Meridian arc in Spitsbergen, Proposal for measurement of a, [173], [234]
• Michel Rinders Bay, [221]
• Mimesdal, [7], [17], [219]
• Mitra Hook, [71], [152]
• Moraines, Struggle with sledges up and over, [15], [80], [134]
• Mount Blanc Range, Previous form of, [209]
• Mountain exploration, Difficulties of, [95]
• Mountains, Scale of, [91], [118]
• New Friesland, [207], [219]
• Nielsen, Edward, [22], [32], [84], [125], [127], [131], [141], [170]
• Mount, [76], [78]
• Nordenskiöld, Baron, A. E., [41], [156], [174], [222]
• Herr Gustaf, [176], [225]
• Glacier, [6], [8], et sqq.
• Nordenskiöld Gl., Expedition up, [15], et sqq.
• North Cape of Norway, [191]
• North-East Land, [207], [222], [234]
• Nunataks, [38], [84]
• Osborne Glacier, [98], et sqq.
• Palæolithic climbing, [163]
• Peter Winter’s Bay, [69], [223]
• Pike, Mr. Arnold, [158], [223]
• Plateaus carved into mountain ranges by rivers and glaciers, [57], [208]
• Post Glacier, [220]
• Pretender Pass, [104]
• Peak, [73], [85], [105], [107], et sqq.
• Scramble on, [113]
• Prince Charles Foreland, [68], [122], [223]
• Prismatic Ice, [102]
• Pyramid, The, [7]
• Quade Hook, [70]
• Queens, The, [73], [85], [101], [104], [105]
• Recherche Bay, vide [Schoonhoven]
• Reindeer, Destruction of, [9], [144]
• Roebuck Land, [222]
• Rotges Mount, [225]
• Russian trappers, [69], [151], [159]
• Sabine, Sir Edward, [173]
• St. John’s Bay, [68], [99], [223]
• Sassendal, [213], [220], [221]
• Schoonhoven (Recherche Bay), [221], [222], [229], [231]
• Scoresby, Dr., [71]
• Scoresby’s Grotto, [145]
• Screes, [114], [119]
• Seven Icebergs, The, [218]
• Islands, [154]
• Shallow River Valley, [221]
• Shoes, Lapp, [49]
• Silence of the snowfields, [89], [123]
• Skans Bay, [3], [219]
• Ski, [24], [30], [34], [37], [55], [93], [100], [106], [123], [125], [127], [129], [194], et sqq., [230]
• Fastenings of, [197]
• First attempts on, [25], [201]
• Footgear for, [199]
• Glissading with, [203]
• In the Alps, [204]
• Kinds of, [196]
• Makers of, [200]
• Records with, [202]
• Staff for, [200]
• Sledges, Misfortunes with, [55], [79], [80], [103], [132], [139]
• Snow blown by a gale, [35]
• Snowfield, Different aspects of surface of, [94], [98]
• Travelling over, 21-[50]
• Waterlogged, [82], [102], [124]
• Snowshoes, Canadian, [26], [30], [32], [49]
• Norwegian, vide [Ski]
• Spitsbergen, Geography of, [217]
• Stonehenge Rocks, [164]
• Stones, Falling, [110]
• Storm on a snowfield, [34], [35]
• Strong Glacier, [221]
• Svanberg, Mount, [43]
• Svensen’s troubles, [23], [32], [34], [35], [36], [40], [48], [50], [66], [84], [101], [119], [129], [149], [153], [156]
• Temple Bay, [220]
• Mount, [66]
• Terrier Peak, [18], [30], [47], [50], [52]
• Teufelsdrökh on North Cape, [193]
• Thordsen Plateau, [3], [28], [93], [219]
• Tibet, Partially undenuded plateau of, [210]
• Torell Glacier, [222], [228], et sqq., [235]
• Tourists in Spitsbergen, [1], [67], [155]
• Trevor-Battye, Mr. A., [157]
• Views, Notable, [6], [17], [19], [23], [28], [33], [38], [46], [48], [71], [87], [92], [105], [112], [114], [120], [126], [136], [140], [144], [177], [180], [182], [192]
• Weather, Bad, [22], [34]
• Whales Bay, [221]
• White Mountain, [41]
• Ascent of, [45]
• Wiche Bay, [220]
• Land, [45], [158], [223]
• Wijde Bay, [29], [39], [122], [217], [219]
• Winter, Approach of, [136], [166], [171], [180], [188], [189], [190]
• Wood Bay, [218]
• Wybe Jans Water, [28], [39], [41], [43], [46], [47], [183]
• Zeehonde Bay, [69]

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