Through the First Antarctic Night

About this eBook

Author

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940

Title

Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899 : a narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the south pole

Original Publication

London: William Heinemann, 1900.

Credits

deaurider, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Belgian

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72211

Release Date

November 23, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.THROUGH THE FIRST ANTARCTIC NIGHT 1898–1899
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
8. 8.CHAPTER I IN AND ABOUT RIO DE JANEIRO
9. 9.CHAPTER II FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO MONTEVIDEO
10. 10.CHAPTER III ORGANISATION OF THE EXPEDITION
11. 11.CHAPTER IV THE “BELGICA,” HER EQUIPMENT, HER COMFORTS AND DISCOMFORTS
12. 12.CHAPTER V MONTEVIDEO TO PUNTA ARENAS
13. 13.CHAPTER VI PUNTA ARENAS, THE SOUTHERNMOST TOWN
14. 14.CHAPTER VII FROM PUNTA ARENAS TO USHUAIA, THROUGH THE FUEGIAN CHANNELS
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII A RACE OF FUEGIAN GIANTS
16. 16.CHAPTER IX DISCOVERIES IN A NEW WORLD OF ICE
17. 17.CHAPTER X DISCOVERIES IN A NEW WORLD OF ICE (CONTINUED)
18. 18.CHAPTER XI FROM DANCOLAND TO ALEXANDER ISLANDS
19. 19.CHAPTER XII ACROSS THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE—FIRST EFFORTS TO PENETRATE THE PACK
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII ALONG THE EDGE OF THE PACK-ICE
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV OVER UNKNOWN WATERS INTO THE FROZEN SEA
22. 22.CHAPTER XV HELPLESS IN A HOPELESS SEA OF ICE
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE PACK—AUTUMNAL TEMPESTS
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII THE FADING DAYS OF THE AUTUMN
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII THE AUTUMN (CONTINUED). WORK AND PASTIME
26. 26.CHAPTER XIX THE FADING DAYS OF THE AUTUMN (CONTINUED)
27. 27.CHAPTER XX THE DAYS OF TWILIGHT PRECEDING THE LONG NIGHT
28. 28.CHAPTER XXI THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT—DEPARTURE OF THE SUN.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXII THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT (CONTINUED)—DAYS OF DISCONTENTMENT.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIII THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT (CONTINUED)—THE DEATH OF DANCO
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIV THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT (CONTINUED). MIDNIGHT TO DAWN
32. 32.CHAPTER XXV SPRING—SUNRISE—TWILIGHT OF DAWN
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVI THE SPRING (CONTINUED)—RETURN OF LIGHT—A SLEDGE JOURNEY
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVII SUMMER
35. 35.CHAPTER XXVIII SUMMER (CONTINUED).
36. 36.CHAPTER XXIX FREED FROM THE ICE-EMBRACES—RETURN TO CIVILISATION
37. 37.APPENDICES — Appendix No. I — GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY — ASTRONOMY AND MAGNETISM — METEOROLOGY — ICE — OCEANOGRAPHY — ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY
38. 38.Appendix No. II
39. 39.Appendix No. III
40. 40.Appendix No. IV
41. 41.Appendix No. V
42. 42.Appendix No. VI
43. 43.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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