INDEX

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A

Abbott, George “Tiny,” 113, 241–42, 252, 266–67, 286

Adelie penguins

about, 5–6, 5n, 7–8

arriving at Cape Adare, 48–49

breeding colony 24/7 observation, 73–76, 216–17

breeding rituals, 95–98, 117–18, 169–72

at Cape Crozier, 65

chicks’ feeding and growth rates, 188–89

Davis attaches tracking devices, 235–37

divorce rate, 45–46, 95, 98, 117–18, 129–30

feeding chases as faculative brood reduction vs. brood maximization, 263–65

feeding one vs. two chicks, 262–65

fledglings entering the water, 195–97

males mating with a dead penguin or a fluffy toy, 181–83

mate switching, 170–71, 228

men singing to, 120

nest attendance patterns of adults, 67–69, 139, 172–75

nest construction, 96

perceived vs. real sexual nature, 6, 51–52, 129–30, 171, 228

pilfering stones from each other, 95–96, 171, 318–19

reverse feeding research, 137–39

serial monogamy, 94

and Shackleton, 78, 79

Sperm Wars research, 180–81, 183, 228, 317–18

transmitters for learning migration route, 235–37, 247–48

See also Levick, G. Murray, and penguins

Amundsen, Leon, 110, 111

Amundsen, Roald

affair with Sigrid Castberg, 92–94, 107–8, 278

on beauty of Antarctica, 178

biographical info, 32–34

and Cook, 102

disappearance/ death of, 304

Gjoa Expedition of Northwest Passage, 63–64, 71–72

house and property on the Bunnefjorden, 106–8, 277–79

and Magnetic North Pole, 63, 71–72

on making the Northwest Passage, 33

and Mawson, 233

and Nansen, 40, 111, 302

and Netsiliks Inuits, 64, 166, 218

and North Pole, 92, 100–101, 190, 302–4

rumors of siring children at Gjoahaven, 64

and Scott, 106–7, 115, 140, 238

as second mate on de Gerlache’s ship, 38–40

Amundsen, Roald, and South Pole

arrival at the South Pole and location verification, 189–91

dining with Pennell, Campbell, and Levick at Bay of Whales, 125–26

food depot placement, 136–37

Fram and crew cheered for in Hobart, 233

Framheim, 165–66, 212–13

goggles used, 218

Midwinter’s Day celebration, 142

secretly planning to go to the South Pole, 103–4, 106–7, 110–11

traveling to the South Pole, 156–58, 165–66, 176, 177–78, 185

vilification for being first, 277–78

Antarctica

Cook voyage near Antarctica, 21–22

first recorded landing on, 35–36

migration route of Adelie penguins, 247–48, 257

penguin challenges in winter, 95

Antarctic Adventures: Scott’s Northern Party (Priestley), 287

Antarctica Penguins: A Study of Their Social Habits (Levick), 6–7, 9, 23–24, 173, 203, 216, 285–86

Arctic

Franklin Expedition, 29–31, 41, 70–71, 72

Gjoa Expedition, 63–64, 71–72

See also Northwest Passage

Armytage, Bertram, 82, 106

Astrup, Eivind, 34, 37–38

Atkinson, Edward, 192, 230–31, 259–60

Aurora (vessel), 186, 207, 233, 284, 292

Australasian Antarctic Expedition/ Mawson

Commonwealth Bay base, 206–7

exploring east of Camp Denison, 260–62, 267–69

insufficient supplies for 300-mile return, 267–69

Mertz’s deterioration and death, 267–68

Ninnis, rations, dog food, and tent fall into a crevasse, 260–61

Western Party at Shackleton Ice Shelf, 233

See also Mawson, Douglas

Axel Heiberg Glacier, Antarctica, 177–78

B

Bacchante (vessel), Levick on, 288–90

Balloon Bight, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 56–57, 124

ballooning in Antarctica, 56

banded penguins, discovery of, 14

Banks, Joseph, 19, 21

Bay of Whales, Antarctica, 77, 124–26

Beach, Rex, 278

Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica, 83, 184, 218–19

Beattie, Owen, 70–71

Beaufort Island, Antarctica, 75

Beeton, Audrey Mayson, 291, 296

Beeton, Isabella Mayson, 290

Beeton, Mayson Moss, 289, 290

Belgica (whaling vessel), 38–40

von Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb, 29

Bennett, Darren, 18

Bennett, Kristine Elisabeth “Kiss,” 278, 279, 303

Bernacchi, Louis, 49

bird species, 13, 13n

Bjaaland, Olav, 165, 178

Bocaccio, 253

Bonner, Charles, 54

Borchgrevink, Carsten

and Amundsen, 32, 304–5

and Cape Adare, 47–49, 131, 132

death of, 304

as first mate of the Antarctic, 35–37

on penguins at Ridley Beach, 51–52

and Scott, 32, 304–5

Southern Cross Expedition, 40, 41, 47–48, 49–52

and tortured penguin found by Levick, 159–61

Borchgrevink Hut, Ridley Beach, Cape Adare, 61, 132–34, 158, 204, 322

Bowers, Birdie, 136, 143, 193, 259

Braine, William, 71

British Exploring Society, London, 308–11, 321

British Museum of Natural History, 17

brood maximization hypothesis, 264

Browning, Frank “Rings,” 113, 158–59, 182, 241–42, 286

Browning, Marjorie Bending, 286

Browning, Robert, 325–26

Bruce, Kathleen, 89, 90

Bruce, Wilfred, 124, 164, 225–26

brucellosis (Mediterranean Fever) research by Levick, 59–60

Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England, 314–17

Bull, Henrik, 35

Byrd, Richard, 304

C

Cambridge, England, 114

Campbell, Lillian, 288

Campbell, Victor

and Amundsen, 125

at Cape Adare, 132

diaries and notebooks from the Terra Nova Expedition, 114, 312–13

exploring at Terra Nova Bay, 209

exploring Cape Wood and Cape North, 158, 159

on Inexpressable Island in the igloo, 243–44, 253–54

and Levick, 125–26, 253–54, 312, 313, 320

post-Scott expedition, 288

on Terra Nova in a storm, 119

on wind blowing at Terra Nova Bay, 221–22

witnessing penguin rape episode, 206

See also Terra Nova Expedition/ Scott and Campbell; Terra Nova Expedition/ Campbell, Northern Party; Terra Nova Expedition/ Campbell, Northern Party in the snow cave

Campbell Glacier, Antarctica, 209

Canadian Coast Guard discovery of HMS Erebus, 30–31, 41

Cape Adare, Antarctica, 35–36, 131, 134, 179, 195–97. See also Ridley Beach

Cape Bird, Antarctica

Davis at, 60–62, 145

Davis sees his first penguins, 61–62

Davis’s research, 66–69, 73–76, 180–82, 183, 215, 228, 317–18

living facilities, 60–61

naming of, 29

Reoccupation Period, 215–17

Ross Ice Shelf calving iceberg leads to chick deaths, 213–14, 262–65

Cape Crozier, Antarctica

Davis’s visit to, 145–46

Emperor penguins at, 78–79, 143–44, 146–47

naming of, 29

Ross Ice Shelf calving icebergs, 213–14

Wilson studying penguins at, 65

Cape Evans, Antarctica, 120–21, 142–44, 166, 271

Cape Royds, Antarctica, 76, 213–14, 265–67. See also Shackleton’s hut

Cape Tennyson, Antarctica, 50

Cape Wood, Antarctica, 155–56, 158–59

Castberg, Sigrid, 92–94, 107–8, 278

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

camped on ice that breaks up, 136

at Cape Evans and Cape Crozier, 142–44

and Cape Royds penguin colony, 265–66

decision not to look for the Polar Team, 231–32, 259

and Levick, 27

and monument to Scott, 269–70

on penguins, 149–50

in photo with Levicks, 307

on plans for final advance to Pole, 192

post-Scott expedition, 306–7

rescuing Priestley, 121

and Scott, 142–43

Christ Church, London, 296

Christ Church Gardens, London, 297

Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, 206–7, 260

Cook, Frederick, 38, 39, 40, 100, 103

Cook, James, 19–22

courtship displays of Adelie penguins, 96–97

Crabeater seals, 120

Crean, Tom, 136

Crozier, Francis, 29–30

Curthose, Robert, 11

D

Darwin, Charles, 12

Davis, Daniel, 245, 262–64

Davis, John King, 82

Davis, Lloyd Spencer

Antarctica as childhood goal, 27

as Antarctica penguin biologist, 73

attaching transmitters to migrating penguins, 235–37

at Cape Bird, 60–62

decision to study penguins, 28, 62

on dogs vs. man-hauling, 239–41

finding Levick and finding himself, 321, 324–26

helicopter ride from Cape Bird to Cape Crozier to Scott Base, 145–46

at Hut Point monument, 270–71

Levick as enigma, 9–10, 26

and Levick’s chapter on penguin sexuality, 7–9, 23–24

on Levick’s scientific mind, 173–75

at monument to Scott, 270–71

in Nansen’s home office, 301

at Scott Polar Research Institute, 114–15

seeing three years of dead chicks, 262

on ship to Ross Sea, 118–19

survival training with Daniel, 245–46

at University of Edmonton, 66

See also Cape Bird, Antarctica

Decameron (Bocaccio), 253

Delprat, Francisca “Paquita,” 94, 282, 284

diarrhea in Antarctica, 244, 246, 256–57

Dickason, Harry “Dick,” 113, 154–55, 158, 287

Dickason, Lillian Lowton, 287

Discovery Expedition/ Scott, 51, 54–58

divorce

and humans, 94, 288

and penguins, 45–46, 95, 98, 117–18, 129–30, 151–52, 323

dogs for pulling sledges

about, 238–40

clearly superior to ponies, 167–68

distance/ food considerations lead to Scott’s death, 230–32

dogs’ comfort during blizzards, 135

double-teaming for steep terrain, 177–78

as food, 168, 267

sacrificing dogs, 58, 72, 168, 178–79, 184

Scott’s experience, 58

temperature consideration, 156–57

Dorman, Emily, 90–91

Drygalski Ice Tongue, Antarctica, 28, 208, 255–56, 258

Duke of York Island penguins, 172

d’Urville, Jules Dumont, 5n

E

Edward VII, king of England, 86, 103, 108

electrical therapy, 297, 305

Elephant Island, Antarctica, 292–93, 294

Emperor penguins

about, 14, 19, 234–35

breeding in midwinter, 65–66

at Cape Crozier, 78–79

divorce rate, 151–52

eggs carried on the fathers’ feet, 149–50

first sighting of, 21–22

and March of the Penguins, 151–52

in Rothschild Museum, 19

and Wilson’s evolution research, 143

Erebus (vessel), 29–31, 41, 70–71, 296

Erect-crested penguins, 181

Eros Denied (Young), 300

Evans, Hilda, 115, 117

Evans, Taffy, 193

Evans, Teddy, 109, 218, 220–21, 230–31

Evans Coves, Antarctica, 207–8, 266. See also Terra Nova Expedition/ Campbell, Northern Party in the snow cave

F

feeding chases, faculative brood reduction vs. brood maximization, 263–65

First on the Antarctic Continent (Borchgrevink), 51, 160–61

Forster, Johann Reinhold, 19, 21–22

Fram Museum, Oslofjord, Norway, 34–35, 63, 64

Fram (vessel made for the Arctic)

Amundsen takes it to South Pole, 110–11, 116

in Fram Museum, 34–35

Nansen’s attempt at Northwest passage, 33–34, 37

offered to Amundsen for North Pole trip, 100, 107

and Terra Nova docked together at Bay of Whales, 124–26

Franklin, Sir John, 30, 50, 281

Franklin Expedition to the Arctic, 29–31, 41, 70–71, 72

Franklin Island, Antarctica, 50

G

Gallipoli, The Dardanelles, 288–90

George V, king of England, 108, 284–85

de Gerlache, Adrien, 38–39, 41, 292

Gjertsen, Fredrik, 110–11

Gjoa Expedition of Northwest Passage/ Amundsen, 63–64, 71–72

Glomma River, Norway, 31

Gran, Tryggve, 106–7, 135, 192, 259, 266–67, 302

Grand Hotel, Oslo, 92–93

Gray, George Robert, 19

Great War, 285, 288–90, 296

Gurney, E. R. “Harold,” 310–11

H

Hall Point, Arctic, 72

Hanson, Johanne, 48, 49

Hanson, Nicolai, 48–49

Hanssen, Hekmer, 165

Hardening of Commando Troops for Warfare (Levick), 314

Harmer, Sidney, 23–24

Harper, Stephen, 30–31

Hartnell, John, 71

Hassel, Sverre, 165

Hatch, Joseph, 187

Hell’s Gate, Antarctica, 234, 241–42. See also Terra Nova Expedition/ Campbell, Northern Party in the snow cave

homosexuality

and humans, 3, 12

and penguins, 6, 7–8, 45, 182–83, 323

Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 19, 29, 56

human nature

about, 323–26

and divorce, 94, 288

and homosexuality, 3, 12

and infidelity, 16–17, 38, 53–54, 89–90, 92–93, 226–28, 299, 300

and murder, 201

and prostitution, 108, 275–76, 290

and rape, 201–2, 206

Hunter, Fiona, 180–82, 183, 217, 228, 317–20

Hut Point, Antarctica

Atkinson trying to reach the Northern Party via coast from, 248–49

monument to Scott and the Polar team, 269–71

Scott’s attempt to reach Magnetic South Pole from, 65

Scott’s base at, 57–58, 79

Scott’s food and dogs waylaid at, 230–31

Scott’s South Pole Party at, 166–67

I

Inexpressible Island, Antarctica, 224–25, 272, 286, 306. See also Terra Nova Expedition/ Campbell, Northern Party in the snow cave

infidelity

about, 129–30

affair of Bess Magids with Amundsen, 303, 304

Astrup’s affair with Eva Nansen, 38

Bennett’s affair with Amundsen, 278

and humans, 16–17, 38, 53–54, 89–90, 92–93, 226–28, 299, 300

Mawson’s affair with Scott’s widow, 293–94

of Nansen, 300

and penguins, 129–30, 169–71, 323, 325

of Shackleton, 90–92, 299

J

Jensen, Bernhard, 50–51

Johansen, Hjalmar, 37, 107, 156, 157–58, 279–80

K

King Edward VII Land, Antarctica, 55, 109, 113, 124, 158, 212

King Haakon VII Plateau, Antarctica, 189

King penguins, 22, 187

King William Island Expedition/ Beattie, 70–71

Klover, Geir, 64

krill in Antarctic Ocean, 138–39

Kristensen, Leonard, 35–36

L

lead poisoning from canned food, 71

leopard seals, 196–97

Levick, Audrey Beeton, 296, 307, 315

Levick, G. Murray

and Amundsen, 125–26

arrival at Shackleton’s hut, 122

assignment to Eastern Party of the Terra Nova Expedition, 112, 113

biographical info, 9, 10, 13, 33, 88–89, 94, 165, 285–86, 321–22

blubber lamps devised by, 244

and Campbell, 125–26, 253–54, 312, 313, 320

in charge of health in the igloo, 247

claiming supplies before the Shore Party grabs theirs, 116

death of, 315

diaries from Antarctica trip, 114–15, 120–21, 132–33, 222, 234, 242

exploring near Terra Nova Bay, 209

exploring Warning Glacier, 158–59

at Hell’s Gate during a violent storm, 241–42

instructions to men about recording penguin observations, 161–62

on living in the igloo on Inexpressible Island, 245

medical education and practice, 40, 59–60

onboard the Terra Nova, 109

photographs telling his story, 322–23

and Ponting, 121

and Rodney, his son, 307, 314

in the Royal Navy, 6–7, 20, 53, 59–60, 98–99, 314

and Scott, 112–13

The Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin, 6–7, 9, 23–24, 25–26, 203

and Shackleton’s hut, 77, 78

as surgeon and zoologist on Scott expedition to South Pole, 101

Levick, G. Murray, and penguins

Antarctica Penguins, 6–7, 9, 23–24, 173, 203, 216, 285–86

at Duke of York Island, 172

lack of interest in, 122, 133–34

on molting penguins, 153–54

as penguin biologist, 32, 161–64, 294

on penguin “males fighting over females,” 169–70

penguins as food, 154, 159

tortured penguin discovery, 159–61

waiting for penguins’ arrival, ix, x–xi

See also Adelie penguins

Levick, G. Murray, field notes

about, 9, 24–26, 179–80, 194, 203–4, 206

on Adelie penguins chicks at Terra Nova Bay rookery, 220

on Antarctica’s effect on him, 219

on copulating when not for breeding, 204

on deciding to study penguins, 161

on deserted nests, 174–75

on dwindling number of penguins at Cape Adare, 153–54

failure to perceive nest relief patterns, 172–74

on finding the tortured penguin, 159–61

on “hooligans,” 216

on “male” penguins fighting, 169–70

on mate switching, 170–71

on morality of Adelie penguins, 85

on necrophilia, 182–83

on penguin chicks, 188–89, 214

on penguins’ haste to breed, 165, 168–69

on petrels and protozoans, 154

on rape, 205–6

on Reoccupation Period, 216

on research methods, 163

on rock usefulness and pilfering, 171–72

Levick, G. Murray, post-Scott expedition

about, 288

and Beeton, Audrey, 291

biographical info, 295, 296–97

and Great War, 288–90, 297–98

lack of empathy, stiff and formal, 310–11

medical practice, 288–90, 297, 305–6

in the Royal Navy, 288–89, 297

Levick, Rodney Beeton Murray, 298–99, 307, 314, 315–16, 321

Lorenz, Konrad, 201

Lyttelton Harbor, New Zealand, 116

M

Mackay, Alister, 101

Macquarie Island, between Antarctica and Australia, 186–87

Madeira (island in the Atlantic), 109

Magids, Bess, 303

Magnetic North Pole, 63, 71–72

Magnetic South Pole, 65, 82

man-hauling sledges

Davis’s experience, 240–41

Scott’s South Pole Party carrying 35 pounds of rock specimens, 218–19, 220, 238, 241, 285

March of the Penguins (documentary), 151–52

Markham, Sir Clements, 36–37, 53, 109

Mawson, Douglas

and Amundsen, 233

knighted by King George V, 284–85

Mount Erebus climb, 81, 82

and Paquita, 94, 284–85

and relief mission for Shackleton, 293

and Scott, 105, 140, 141

See also Australasian Antarctic Expedition/ Mawson

Mawson, Paquita, 284–85, 294. See also Delprat, Francisca

McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 57–58, 123, 136, 248–49, 271

Mediterranean Fever (brucellosis) research by Levick, 59–60

Mertz, Xavier, 260–62, 267–68

Midwinter’s Day in Antarctica, 142–43, 250–51

migration route of Adelie penguins, 247–48, 257

monogamy, 12–13, 45–46, 75. See also infidelity

monument to Scott and the Polar team, Hut Point, Antarctica, 269–71

Mount Abbott, Antarctica, 209

Mount Dickason, Antarctica, 209

Mount Erebus, Antarctica, 29, 81, 82, 266–67

Mount Levick, Antarctica, 209

Mount Melbourne, Antarctica, 209

Mount Terror, Antarctica, 29. See also Cape Crozier, Antarctica

Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (Beeton), 290

murder by humans and animals, 201

Murray, James, 79–80, 84–85, 86–87

Mutual Call of Adelie penguins, 97, 117–18

N

Nansen, Eva, 38, 300, 301

Nansen, Fridtjof

affair with Kathleen Scott, 226–27

and Amundson, 33, 40, 111

and the Fram, 33–34, 37, 110

leader of Greenland ice cap expedition, 32

philandering of, 92

Scott consults with, 57, 106

and Ueland, 300

Nansen, Sigrun Munthe, 300

National Library, Oslo, Norway, 279–80

Natural History Museum, London, 17

Natural History Museum, Tring, 17, 18–19, 23, 147–49. See also Rothschild Museum, Tring

natural selection theory and monogamy, 12–13

necrophilia, 181, 182–83

nest relief pattern of Adelie penguins, 67–69, 139, 172–75

Netsiliks tribe, Inuits, 64, 166, 218

Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 10, 11–12

Newfoundland, Canada, 20, 311–12, 313

New York Times on Peary’s claim to be first to North Pole, 104

New Zealand, 19–20, 28, 54, 116–17

New Zealand Antarctica Research Program, 239–40, 322

Nimrod Expedition/ Shackleton

members receive Polar Medal, 103, 105

Murray studying rotifers, 79–80, 84–85

Northern Party journey to Magnetic South Pole, 82

Scott’s reaction, 76

search for a base camp, 76–77

Shackleton names Mount Hope to honor Hope Patterson, 92

Southern Party attempt to reach South Pole, 83–84

Western Party explores Ferrar Glacier area, 82–83

Ninnis, Belgrave, 260–61

North Pole, 71, 100–101, 302–4

Northwest Passage, Gjoa Expedition, 63–64, 71–72

O

Oates, Titus, 117, 135, 167, 193, 218, 224, 237–38

One Ton Depot, Antarctica, 231–32

Otago Harbor, New Zealand, 117

P

Patterson, Hope, 91–92

Peary, Robert, 39, 100–101, 103, 104

penguin digesters, 187

penguins

about, 13–14, 55

breeding imperative, 129–30, 151–52, 323

contradictory multitudes in, 325

demeanor of, 62

and divorce, 45–46, 95, 98, 117–18, 129–30, 151–52, 323

on Duke of York Island, 172

as food, 120, 123

and homosexuality, 6, 7–8, 45, 182–83, 323

and infidelity, 129–30, 169–71, 323, 325

and murder, 201

and prostitution, 317–19, 323

and rape, 205–6

skuas as predators of eggs and young, 66–67, 216

See also Adelie penguins

Pennell, Harry, 124, 125–26, 194

Percy the penguin, 132–33

Polar Biology (Russell), 9

Polar Plateau, 82

Polar Record (journal), 7

ponies in Antarctica, 83, 135–36, 167, 184

Pons Aelius (Roman settlement on River Tyne), 11

Ponting, Herbert, 120–21

“Porphyria’s Lover” (Browning), 325–26

Port Chalmers, New Zealand, 54, 116

Prestrud, Kristian, 110

Priestley, Phyllis Boyd, 287

Priestley, Raymond

amenities as an officer, 133

and Amundsen’s dog teams, 125

camped on sea ice that breaks up, 82–83

in Cape Royds, 121, 122

on Drygalski Ice Tongue, 208

and Levick, 80–81, 161

on loss of sea ice at Cape Adare, 155

monitoring penguin behavior, 173

and Mount Erebus, 266–77

post-Scott expedition, 287–88

as quartermaster in the igloo, 247

Terra Nova Expedition assignment, 113

Priestley Glacier, Antarctica, 209

prostitution

about, 275–76

and humans, 108, 275–76, 290

and penguins, 317–19, 318–20, 323

Public Schools Exploring Society, London, 308–11

R

rape

about, 201–2

and humans, 201–2, 206

and penguins, 205–6

Reoccupation Period at Cape Bird, Antarctica, 215–17

Ridley Beach, Cape Adare, Antarctica

Borchgrevink at, 47–49, 51–52

Borchgrevink Hut, 61, 132–34, 158, 204, 322

first study of penguins, ix, x–xi

Scott lands at, 52–53, 54–55

Rist, Edwin, 17–18

Ross, James Clark, 19, 29, 30

Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 51, 55–57, 76–77, 123–24, 145, 212–14, 262–65

Ross Island, Antarctica, 29, 50. See also Cape Bird; Cape Crozier; Cape Royds

Ross Sea, Antarctica, 29, 75–76

Rothschild, Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, 15–17

Rothschild Museum, Tring, 13, 14, 16–18. See also Natural History Museum, Tring

Royal Geographical Society, London, 36–37, 51, 54–58, 305

Russell, Douglas, 6–7, 9, 19, 22, 23–24, 147–49, 203

S

Savio, Per, 160–61

Scott, Kathleen Bruce

children of, 299–300

encouraging Scott to be a hero, 90

engaged to Scott, 89

helping to pay off Mawson’s debt, 284

letter to Scott before his death, 283

marriage to Young, 299

and Mawson, 105, 141, 293–94

and Nansen, 106, 226–27

response to Scott’s death, 282–83

traveling across the United States, 282

traveling with Terra Nova Expedition, 115, 117, 118

Scott, Peter “Doodles,” 101, 283, 299–300, 307

Scott, Robert Falcon

and Amundsen, 106–7, 115, 140, 238

ballooning in Antarctica, 56

biographical info, 53, 89–90

and Borchgrevink, 32, 304–5

death of, x, 242, 259

and Discovery Expedition, 51, 54–58

Emperor penguin drawing at University of Cambridge, 78

and Emperor penguins, 78–79

and Kathleen, 89, 117, 283–84

and Levick, 112–13

and Mawson, 140, 141

public reaction to his death, 280–81

receives notice that Amundsen is going to South Pole, 115

second attempt to reach South Pole, 101, 106–7

and Shackleton, 76, 105–6, 121–22, 123

and Terra Nova Expedition, 7

See also Terra Nova Expedition/ Scott, South Pole Party

Scott Base, Antarctica, 145

Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, 114–15, 312

Second International Penguin Conference, 5n

Seven Years’ War, 20

The Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin (Levick), 6–7, 9, 23–24, 25–26, 203

Shackleton, Emily Dorman, 90–91, 299

Shackleton, Sir Ernest

Adelie penguin drawing, 78

ballooning with Scott, 56

death of, 299

and Discovery Expedition, 53, 57–58

and Great War, 292

lecture tour for raising money, 102

and Mawson, 105, 284

philandering and marriage, 90–92, 299

and Scott, 76, 105–6, 121–22, 123

South Pole expedition, 76–77

Transantarctic Expedition, 292–93, 294, 299

See also Nimrod Expedition

Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 233

Shackleton’s hut, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 76, 77, 79, 82, 84–86, 121–23

Shokalskiy (Russian ship), 118–19, 134, 208, 277

Shotley, England, 98–99

skuas, 66–67, 216

Solis Park, Oslo, Norway, 279–80

Southern Cross Expedition/ Borchgrevink, 40, 41, 47–48, 49–52

The South Pole (Amundsen), 278

Sperm Wars, Adelie penguins, 180–81, 183, 228, 317–18

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital “Barts,” London, 88–89

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, 311–12

survival analysis, Adelie penguins, 68–70

T

Tasman, Abel, 19

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 270, 281

Terra Australis postulation, 21, 22

Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica, 207–9, 216, 219–20, 221–22

Terra Nova Expedition/ Scott and Campbell

about, ix, 7

Atkinson leads a meeting to decide who to look for in the spring, 249–50

Eastern Party, 109, 112–13, 114–15, 123, 126

Hut Point monument to Scott and the Polar team, 269–71

mooring the ship next to the Fram in Bay of Whales, 124–26

reunion of South Pole Party with Northern Party, 260

sailing to Antarctica, 109–10, 112, 119–20

as scientific expedition, 285

Scott and Campbell divvying up the men, 112–13

supply stops in New Zealand, 116–17

Terra Nova arrives at Cape Evans, 120, 269

Terra Nova Expedition/ Campbell, Northern Party

at Cape Adare, 131–34, 154–56, 164

exploring around Terra Nova Bay, 207–9, 219–20

exploring Warning Glacier and Cape Wood, 158–59

and Percy the penguin, 132–33

research mission rerouted to Cape Adare, 126

Terra Nova Expedition/ Campbell, Northern Party in the snow cave

Campbell goes back for geological samples, 272

effects of a seal meat diet for seven months, 244–45, 246, 256–57

leaving the igloo, 257–58

Midwinter Celebration, 250–51

planning the post-winter trek to Cape Evans, 246–47, 255–56

preparing to overwinter, 224–25, 233–34, 241–42

psychological challenges, 252–54

waiting at Evans Coves for Terra Nova, 221–23, 234, 241–42

wintering in the snow cave/ igloo, 243–45, 246–47, 251–54

Terra Nova Expedition/ Scott, South Pole Party

arrival at the South Pole, 210

Bowers, Crean, and Cherry-Garrard escape death at McMurdo Sound, 136

carrying 35 pounds of rock samples back from the Pole, 218–19, 220, 238, 241, 285

deaths of Scott’s team, 221, 237–38, 242

establishing base at Cape Evans, 120–21

food depot placement, 134–35, 137

Midwinter’s Day celebration, 142–43

and motorized sledges, 106, 116, 167

motor sledge sinks, Priestley almost with it, 121

preparations for South Pole attempt, 134–35

returning from South Pole, 211–12, 218–19, 220–21, 223–24, 229, 232–33

traveling to the South Pole, 166–68, 176, 177, 184–85, 191–93

trip to Cape Crozier in winter, for Emperor penguin eggs, 143–44

Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland, Canada, 313

Terra Nova (vessel), 109, 119, 124–26, 132, 222–23, 225–26

Terror (vessel), 29–30, 41, 63, 70–71

Torrington, John, 71

Transantarctic Expedition/ Shackleton, 292–93, 294, 299

Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, 177–78

Transit of Venus, 20–21

transmitters on Adelie penguins, 235–37, 247–48

Tring Park Mansion, Tring, England, 15–16

U

Ueland, Brenda, 300

University of Alberta, Edmonton, 67–70

University of Cambridge, 78, 114–15, 312

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 28

V

Victoria, queen of England, 53

Victorian Era

assumptions about sexuality, 3, 12–13

attitude toward sexuality, 3, 12–13

Christ Church as remnant of, 296

end of, 53

morals as priority, 10, 12

and prostitution, 275

Vogt, Johanne Hanson, 48, 49

W

Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, 16–17

Warning Glacier, Antarctica, 158–59

Weddell seals, 28, 239

whales chasing Ponting, 120–21

Wilson, Bill, 109, 112, 113, 193, 218, 233, 259

Wilson, Edward, 53, 55, 56, 65–66, 78–79, 143

Wilson, Oriana, 115, 117

Wisting, Oscar, 165

World War I, 285, 288–90, 296

The Worst Journey in the World (Cherry-Garrard), 27, 143–44, 306, 326

Y

Young, Edward Hilton, First Baron Kennet, 299

Young, Kathleen Bruce Scott, 299–300

Young, Wayland Hilton, 299–300