Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I ORIGIN OF THE EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER II COMMANDER SVEND FOYN
- CHAPTER III THE STEAM-WHALER ‘ANTARCTIC’
- CHAPTER IV THE START.—TRISTAN D'ACUNHA
- CHAPTER V KERGUELEN OR DESOLATION ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VI MELBOURNE—INTERMEDIATE VOYAGE
- CHAPTER VII START FOR THE ANTARCTIC.—CAMPBELL ISLANDS.—THE FIRST REBUFF
- CHAPTER VIII GRIPPED BY THE ICE.—BALLENY ISLANDS—CHRISTMAS IN THE PACK
- CHAPTER IX SERIOUS POSITION—SUDDEN RELEASE
- CHAPTER X SOUTH VICTORIA LAND.—POSSESSION ISLANDS.—FIRST LANDING ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT
- CHAPTER XI FAREWELL TO ANTARCTICA.—FORCING THE PACK.—SPERM WHALING.—BREAK-UP OF THE EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER XII RESULTS, COMMERCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC, OF OUR EXPEDITION
- APPENDIX I EXTRACTS FROM THE LOG OF THE ‘ANTARCTIC’
- APPENDIX II NOTES ON SPECIMENS FROM POSSESSION ISLAND AND CAPE ADARE, COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN JENSEN
CHAPTER III - THE STEAM-WHALER ‘ANTARCTIC’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I ORIGIN OF THE EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER II COMMANDER SVEND FOYN
- CHAPTER III THE STEAM-WHALER ‘ANTARCTIC’
- CHAPTER IV THE START.—TRISTAN D'ACUNHA
- CHAPTER V KERGUELEN OR DESOLATION ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VI MELBOURNE—INTERMEDIATE VOYAGE
- CHAPTER VII START FOR THE ANTARCTIC.—CAMPBELL ISLANDS.—THE FIRST REBUFF
- CHAPTER VIII GRIPPED BY THE ICE.—BALLENY ISLANDS—CHRISTMAS IN THE PACK
- CHAPTER IX SERIOUS POSITION—SUDDEN RELEASE
- CHAPTER X SOUTH VICTORIA LAND.—POSSESSION ISLANDS.—FIRST LANDING ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT
- CHAPTER XI FAREWELL TO ANTARCTICA.—FORCING THE PACK.—SPERM WHALING.—BREAK-UP OF THE EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER XII RESULTS, COMMERCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC, OF OUR EXPEDITION
- APPENDIX I EXTRACTS FROM THE LOG OF THE ‘ANTARCTIC’
- APPENDIX II NOTES ON SPECIMENS FROM POSSESSION ISLAND AND CAPE ADARE, COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN JENSEN
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- The Cruise of the Antarctic to the South Polar Regions , pp. 25 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1896