Antarctica appears in the book as a recurring geographical reference within its broad account of whales and whaling. The index directs readers to discussions on pages 263, 296, 315, 319, 321–328, 334, 337, 341, and 400, marking the location’s return across the book without identifying a single defining episode in the material cited here.

Index and Scope

The index entry groups Antarctica among the book’s named places and gives eleven page references, including a consecutive run from pages 321 to 328. This range establishes that Antarctica is not merely an isolated mention, but the references alone do not identify the subject of each passage or describe a specific visit, voyage, or event there.

Place in the Whaling Narrative

The book’s index surveys whaling across many regions, while its wider narrative considers how hunting diminished cetacean populations and disrupted the cultural knowledge whales transmit. That environmental history provides a broad context for Antarctica’s repeated appearance, but the cited passages do not establish a particular Antarctic whaling operation or connect a specific conservation outcome to the region.

Narrative Significance

Antarctica’s documented significance here is primarily structural: its repeated index references place it within the book’s geographically expansive treatment of whales and human encounters with them. The available evidence supports recognizing it as a recurring location, while leaving the particulars of its scenes and role unspecified.