The Home of the Blizzard eBook

Douglas Mawson

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
COLOUR PLATES	1
PLATES	1
	4
TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS	8
FOLDING MAPS	9
CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND PREPARATIONS	9
CHAPTER II THE LAST DAYS AT HOBART AND THE VOYAGE TO MACQUARIE ISLAND	19
CHAPTER III FROM MACQUARIE ISLAND TO ADELIE LAND	37
CHAPTER IV NEW LANDS	53
CHAPTER V FIRST DAYS IN ADELIE LAND	59
CHAPTER VI AUTUMN PROSPECTS	68
CHAPTER VII THE BLIZZARD	75
CHAPTER VIII DOMESTIC LIFE	90
CHAPTER IX MIDWINTER AND ITS WORK;	99
WEIGHT OF CERTAIN ANTARCTIC BIRDS IN RELATION TO WING AREAS	107
Menu du Diner	115
MIDWINTER’S DAY MENU AT THE MAIN BASE, ADELIE LAND, 1912	115
CHAPTER X THE PREPARATION OF SLEDGING EQUIPMENT	115
CHAPTER XI SPRING EXPLOITS	125
THE WASHERWOMAN’S SECRET	137
DRAMATIS PERSONAE	137
ACT I	137
ACT II	137
ACT III	137
ACT IV	138
ACT V	138
CHAPTER XII ACROSS KING GEORGE V LAND	139
TOTAL LOAD	142
CHAPTER XIII TOIL AND TRIBULATION	158
CHAPTER XIV THE QUEST OF THE SOUTH MAGNETIC POLE	178
CHAPTER XV EASTWARD OVER THE SEA-ICE	200
CHAPTER XVI HORN BLUFF AND PENGUIN POINT	216
CHAPTER XVII WITH STILLWELL’S AND BICKERTON’S PARTIES	226
CHAPTER XVIII THE SHIP’S STORY	236
CHAPTER XIX THE WESTERN BASE—ESTABLISHMENT AND EARLY ADVENTURES	255
CHAPTER XX THE WESTERN BASE—WINTER AND SPRING	264
CHAPTER XXI THE WESTERN BASE—BLOCKED ON THE SHELF-ICE	279
CHAPTER XXII THE WESTERN BASE—LINKING UP WITH KAISER WILHELM II LAND	291
CHAPTER XXIII A SECOND WINTER	305
CHAPTER XXIV NEARING THE END	319
CHAPTER XXV LIFE ON MACQUARIE ISLAND	328
CHAPTER XXVI A LAND OF STORM AND MIST	345
CHAPTER XXVII THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR	372
CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOMEWARD CRUISE	383
APPENDIX I	396
Macquarie Island Party	397
Main Base Party	397
Western Base Party	397
Terrestrial Magnetism	403
Biology	404
Geology	404
Glaciology	405
Meteorology	405
Tides	405
Wireless and Auroral Observations	405
Geographical Results	405
Oceanography	406
APPENDIX Ill	406
APPENDIX IV	410
APPENDIX V	412
Western Base (Queen Mary Land)	412
Main Base (Adelie Land)	413
GRANTS AND DONATIONS	414
Equipment	416
TABLE OF FOOD-SUPPLIES FOR A TWELVE-MAN BASE	419
Scientific Equipment	421
(Three Pages)	436

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