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  • fans (river and submarine)
    1
  • Farnella
    , R/V Ch. 1
    passim
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • Fawcett, Lt-Col Percy
    1
  • feral children
    1
  • Field, Cyrus W.
    1
  • Finwhale
    , HMS
    1
  • ‘First law of travel’
    1
  • Fish Commission (US)
    1
  • Fisher, Robert L.
    1
  • ‘Flat Earthers’
    1
  • foetus, ‘breathing’ of infants
    in utero
    1
  • Forbes, Edward
    1
  • Forth Bridge
    1
  • fossils
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
  • Franklin, Sir John
    1
  • Freud, Sigmund
    1
    ,
    2
  • Frobisher, Martin
    1
  • fulmars
    1
    ,
    2
  • ‘Gaia’ hypothesis
    1
  • Galilee, Sea of
    1
  • gannets
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Garnier, Charles G. T.
    1
  • GEBCO
    1
  • geodetic points
    1
  • Gaddafi, Col.
    1
  • ghost net
    1
    ,
    2
  • giant squid
    1
  • glaciation
    1
  • GLORIA Ch. 1
    passim
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
  • gold
    1
    ,
    2
  • Golding, William
    1
  • Goode, G. Brown
    1
    n
  • Gosse, Edmund
    1
    n
    ,
    2
  • Gosse, Philip
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Gould, Stephen Jay
    1
    n
    ,
    2
    n
  • GPS (Global Positioning System)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • gravimeter
    1
    ,
    2
  • Gray, Edwyn
    1
    n
  • ‘Green’ movement
    1
  • Gulf of Sirte
    1
  • Haeckel, Ernst
    1
  • Hallam, Arthur
    1
  • Halobates
    1
    ,
    2
  • Harty, Sir Hamilton
    1
  • hatchet fish
    1
  • ‘heat death’ of universe, theory
    1
  • Heyerdahl, Thor
    1
  • Hirschfeld, Magnus
    1
    n
  • Hjort, Johan
    1
  • Homer
    1
    ,
    2
  • homosexual pirates
    1
  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley
    1
  • horror vacui
    1
  • Huggett, Quentin
    1
    ,
    2
  • Hughes, Hector
    1
  • ‘Hump Day’
    1
  • Hunter Is.
    1
  • hunting
    1
    ,
    2
  • Huxley, Thomas Henry
    1
    ,
    2
  • ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea)
    1
  • imaginary voyages
    1
  • incompressibility of water
    1
    et
    seq
    .
  • Industrial Revolution
    1
    ,
    2
  • infrared ‘vision’
    1
  • Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (former)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n
  • Irish potato famine
    1
  • Isabella
    , HMS
    1
  • Îles du Salut
    1
  • James, M. R.
    1
  • Jasper
    , USS
    1
  • Jeans, Sir J.
    1
    ,
    2
  • ‘Jenny Haniver’
    1
    ,
    2
  • Johnson, Amy
    1
  • Johnston, George
    1
    n
    ,
    2
    n
    ,
    3
  • Johnston Is./Atoll
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Johnston, Keith
    1
  • JOIDES
    1
  • Jonah (Hebrew prophet)
    1
    ,
    2
  • Jones, R. V.
    1
    n
  • Jordan, Paul
    1
    n
  • Kababish
    1
  • kakapo
    1
  • Kaye, Emily (murder victim)
    1
    n
  • Kelvin, Lord
    1
  • Kermadec Deep
    1
  • Keulen, van
    1
  • Kingsley, Revd Charles
    1
    ,
    2
  • knowledge (and light)
    1
  • (loss of)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • Kon-Tiki
    1
  • Kostelanetz, André
    1
  • Kraken
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • krill
    1
    .
  • Kropotkin, Peter
    1
    ,
    2
  • landscape and the parental
    1
  • (loss of)
    1
  • Law, R.
    1
    n
  • Lear, Edward
    1
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude
    1
  • Lightning
    , HMS
    1
  • light (under water)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • (in space)
    1
  • Lim Ah Hong
    1
  • limen
    1
    ,
    2
  • Linnaeus, Carl
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Linton, Edwin
    1
    n
  • ‘living fossils’
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Livy
    1
  • Loch Leven Castle
    1
  • Loch Ness Monster
    1
  • Lockerbie
    1
  • Lophelia pertusa
    (cold water coral)
    1
    n
  • Lord Howe Is.
    1
  • Lovelock, James
    1
  • Lusitania
    1
  • Luther, Martin
    1
  • Lyell, Charles
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
  • Macy’s Is.
    1
  • Maeterlinck, Maurice
    1
    n
  • Magellan, Ferdinand
    1
  • magnetometer
    1
  • Mahon, Patrick
    1
    n
  • manganese nodules
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Mao Tse-Tung
    1
  • Marcos, Ferdinand
    1
    ,
    2
  • Marianas Trench
    1
  • Mary Celeste
    1
    n
  • Marine Society, the
    1
  • Marsigli, L-F
    1
  • ‘Martha’ (last passenger pigeon)
    1
  • Mary Rose
    1
    ,
    2
  • Masters, Brian
    1
    n
  • matelotage
    1
  • Maury, Matthew Fontaine
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Mawken
    1
  • Maxwell, Robert
    1
    n
  • Mayda Is.
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
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    5
    ,
    6
  • McConnell, Anita
    1
    n
  • Mérimée, Prosper
    1
  • Mickleburgh, Edwin
    1
  • Miller, Glenn
    1
  • ‘missing link’
    1
  • MNLF
    1
    ,
    2
  • monsoons
    1
  • monsters
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
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    5
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    ,
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  • monuments
    1
    ,
    2
  • moon landing, as hoax
    1
  • More, Sir Thomas
    1
  • Moscow Institute of Oceanology
    1
  • Moscow Institute of the Physics of the Earth
    1
    n
  • Murray Fracture Zone
    1
  • Murray, John
    1
    ,
    2
  • Musicians Seamounts
    1
  • Musil, Robert
    1
    n
  • Musimu, Patrick
    1
    n
  • Nabokov, Vladimir
    1
  • Narborough, Sir J.
    1
  • NASA
    1
    ,
    2
    n
  • Necker Ridge
    1
  • Nelken, M.
    1
  • Nelson, Richard
    1
    ,
    2
  • Nemo, Capt.
    1
  • Nilsen, Dennis
    1
  • Nimmo, H. Arlo
    1
  • Noah/Noah’s Flood
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • ‘North Atlantic Boing’
    1
    ,
    2
  • Objets trouvés
    1
  • Oblate Fathers
    1
  • Okinotorishima Is.
    1
    ,
    2
  • Oliver, Tim
    1
    n
  • Omphalos
    1
    ,
    2
  • Onslow, Lord
    1
  • oppositions
    1
    ,
    2
  • orientation (in humans)
    1
  • Orr-Ewing, Ian
    1
  • Palmerston, Lord
    1
  • pampano
    1
  • Panama Canal
    1
  • pandas
    1
  • Panmure, Lord
    1
  • ‘Parallax’ (pseudonym)
    1
  • Paramount, Mt.
    1
  • parrotfish
    1
    ,
    2
  • passenger pigeon
    1
  • Pasteur, Louis
    1
  • Payne, E. J.
    1
    n
  • Pearl Harbor
    1
  • Penguin
    , HMS
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • penguins, as fuel
    1
    ,
    2
  • Perec, Georges
    1
  • perfect pitch
    1
  • Permian extinctions
    1
  • Pet Travel Scheme (PETS)
    1
    n
  • Peyssonnel, J-A.
    1
  • pheromones
    1
    ,
    2
    n
    ,
    3
  • Phipps, William
    1
  • phosphorescence:
    • see bioluminescence
  • photosynthesis
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • phytoplankton
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Piccard, Auguste
    1
    ,
    2
  • pilgrimage
    1
    ,
    2
  • pistol shrimp
    1
  • pit viper
    1
  • plate tectonics
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Plato
    1
  • Plutarch
    1
    ,
    2
  • Podestà Is.
    1
  • pollution, of N. Sea
    1
    • of Pacific
      1
    • of research bases in Antarctica
      1
    • of space
      1
  • Porcupine
    , HMS
    1
  • Poseidon
    1
  • Power, Adm. Sir A. J.
    1
  • pressure, effects of
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • pressure stocks
    1
  • prison islands
    1
    ,
    2
  • ‘prochronic’ theory
    1
  • Ptolemy
    1
    ,
    2
  • Puerto Galera
    1
  • Pyrrho
    1

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