"Tekeli-li" or Hollow Earth Lives:
A Bibliography of Antarctic Fiction

 

by

Fauno Lancaster Cordes
355 Arballo Drive
San Francisco, California 94132-2156, USA
July 1993

Accessed at least many times since 3 December 2006.

Click here to see Fauno preparing to 'cross the Alps' in 1954.

Based in part on a thesis entitled Winter Survival in the Antarctic as described by James Fenimore Cooper and submitted to the faculty of San Francisco State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Geography, August 1991. Much of the Annotated Bibliography originated as Appendix 2 of the thesis.

Thesis copyrighted through University Microfilms International.

Updated: February 1999; 22 March 2000; 11 August 2000; 1 September 2000; 1 April 2001; 4 April 2001; 9 July 2001, 11 October 2001, 16 March 2002, 16 April 2002; 23 October 2002; 17 November 2002; 17 March 2003; 2 September 2003; 20 February 2004; 30 October 2004; 9 March 2005; 30 July 2005; 25 February 2006; 27 August 2006; 11 February 2007; 26 November 2007; 16 February 2008.



PREFACE

I had been interested in Antarctic exploration for several years and had slowly accumulated a modest library of Antarcticana. Then my interest turned to Antarctic fiction. It really did all begin on a dark, foggy day in San Francisco in 1978 as I was down on my hands and knees browsing a low, dark shelf of the Melody Lane Bookshop. I found a copy of We Were There with Byrd at the South Pole by Charles S. Strong (1956), which was obviously juvenile fiction. It was only 50 cents, so I bought it even though it did not fit into my cataloging system. The book sat on my shelf virtually unnoticed until I remembered that I owned a set of works by Edgar Allan Poe (1946) which included "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1837). If there were two works of Antarctic fiction, then there must be more. It was with that thought that I began my search.

I had read Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica by Charles Neider (1974) about three times because it appealed to me. On an impulse I wrote to him asking if he had ever considered writing an Antarctic novel. It seems that on the very day that he had received my letter he had been discussing an Antarctic novel that he had set aside several years before. It was he who suggested that I write an annotated bibliography which later became part of an Antarctican Society newsletter (Cordes 1983).

After several false starts, I finally decided to write the bibliography in chronological order because I could detect a pattern that I titled "The Emerging Face of a Continent". I received many letters in response with names of novels or short stories to help in my search for Antarctic fiction.

About four years later, I received a phone call from Jacob Chernofsky, editor and publisher of AB Bookman's Weekly, asking me to write an article for him, which was published the next year. I, then, received more helpful letters with names of novels and science fiction short stories. One of the letters was from Elizabeth Chipman, author and Antarctican, of Australia. She has sent me many books and suggestions and is a delightful correspondent.

About six years ago Barry Lopez, author and naturalist, gave a lecture at Indiana University, and Elena Glasberg stopped to talk to him afterwards and obtained my name and address. The result is that she and I still correspond and exchange information. I benefited enormously from her research for her thesis in progress, The Antarctic of the Imagination: American Authors' Exploration for the Last Continent, and I am grateful for her help.

I am deeply indebted to the University of San Francisco for special permission to use the Richard A. Gleeson Library after the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 1989 destroyed the interiors of my two primary resource libraries. Video cameras placed on the upper floors of the J. Paul Leonard Library of San Francisco State University revealed that the books were dumped on the floor and the metal shelves were twisted into trash. The Main San Francisco Public Library reported that about 300,000 books were tossed on the floor and the rest of the million plus volumes were put into storage until repairs were completed.

Without the interlibrary loan system network, this bibliography would not be possible. I am grateful for the diligence of the many librarians whose names I will never know.

In compiling the bibliography of Antarctic fiction, I decided to follow some personal ground rules:

This monograph is an updated version of my original bibliography, "Appendix 2" of my thesis.
Margaret Smith of "The Last Word" has done my word processing since 1983.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to thank those who have been kind enough to give me titles to track down, translate passages and provide reference material. Without them, this project would have been quite a bit smaller.

Peter Anderson
Margaret Andrew
Billy-Ace Baker
Maurice Bassan
Joan Boothe
Russell Bright
Gabriel and Carol Campagnet
Barbara Carlson
Camille Cazedesus II
Richard Champion
Paul Chaplin
Elizabeth Chipman
Jeremy and Geraldine Cole
Louis Collins
Bard Cosman
Lawrence Currie
Paul Dalrymple
Richard Dehmel
Malcolm Ferguson
Robert Flint, Jr.
Elena Glasberg
Guy Guthridge
Robert Headland
Kwan Ho
Rupert Jernigan
Ruth Kamena
Crawford Kilian
Yoshiko Kimura
Mary Krier
Valmar Kurol
Edward Lefkowicz
John Lenkey III
David and Cathy Lilburne
Barry Lopez
Frank Manasek
William Manhire
Robert Mattila
Elizabeth Mitchum
Marion Morris
Sam Moskowitz
Charles Neider
Luella Nysven
Hiromitsu and Betty Ogawa
Jerome and Jean Marie Parmer
Stephanie Pfennigwerth
Jay Platt
Edith Ronne
Jeff Rubin
Emanuel and Ann Rudolph
Ruth Siple
David and Deirdre Stam
Robert B. Stephenson
Graham Stone
Virginia Stout
Susan Stryker
John Stutesman
Erik Svensson
Robert A. Swan
Brian Taves
Bayard Teigan
Margaret Thompson
Howard Walter
Shirley Watkins
Michele Wellck
John Westfall
Nancy Weston
Valerie Wheat



TABLE OF CONTENTS



INTRODUCTION

Antarctic fiction began in 1605 with publication of Mundus Alter Et Idem by Bishop Joseph Hall under the name of Mercurio Brittanico.[1] The genre of creating a southern continent inhabited by unknown peoples with what the author considered to be proper moral and political persuasions is a popular format which has lasted four hundred years.

With the discovery of the South Shetland Islands in 1819 by William Smith in the British brig "Williams", the authors of Antarctic fiction introduced a new genre: hollow earth, an idea which has lasted almost two hundred years.

At this point, I do not know the origin of the idea that Earth is hollow. I recently purchased a map which I later learned is page 170 from Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher. There is a collection of books by Kircher in the Donohue Rare Book room of the Gleeson Library of the University of San Francisco, and I was able to examine a copy of the 1678 edition. There are two maps on page 170. The upper one is of the Arctic regions, and shows the water spiraling past Tartaria, Spitzberga, Groenlandia and America Borealis into a hole at the North Pole. The lower map of the Antarctic region shows the waters emerging from the South Pole and diffusing evenly throughout a landless Antarctic circle. Ben Watson, curator of the Donohue Rare Book Room, stated that Kircher was not known as a man of original ideas, but as a man who collected other people's ideas.

In 1692 Edmond Halley spoke before the Royal Society about "the change of the variation of the magnetical needle" and then published his ideas in the Society "Transactions". He proposed that the earth was hollow and contained subterranean waters and orbs that were habitable. At this point the trail of hollow earth fades and reappears 126 years later.

In April of 1818, former Captain U.S. Infantry John Cleves Symmes wrote: "The earth is hollow, habitable within; containing a number of concentrick spheres; one within the other, and that it is open at the pole twelve or sixteen degrees". This statement was sent to 500 institutions of higher learning and important government officials both in theUnited States and in Europe. This was the beginning of the Hollow Earth Theory which eventually lead to the presence of the United States government in the Antarctic (Mitterling 1959).[2]

In 1820 Symzonia, written by Captain Adam Seaborn in the tradition of Mundus, was published. However, the best was yet to come after Jeremiah N. Reynolds usurped the lecture circuits from Symmes who was becoming ill. Reynolds had a forceful enough personality to win a speaking engagement before the United States Hall of Representatives in 1836, and thereby attracted even greater public attention, including that of Edgar Allen Poe.

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" was published in the January-February edition of the Southern Literary Messenger by Edgar Allen Poe in 1837. The cry "Tekeli-li" and the visions of a hollow earth became firmly implanted in the minds of fantasy fiction writers. Jules Verne and H.P. Lovecraft were among the many authors who responded to "Pym". Verne became obsessed with the idea of writing a sequel which he finally did in 1899 under the title Le Sphinx des Glâces.

The fascination with "Pym" continues. In 1979, Paul Theroux wrote a book about his journey from Boston to Patagonia by rail. He took several books, including "Pym", with him when he went to visit Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires. Borges asked Theroux to read the last two chapters to him and clapped with delight at the end of the recitation.

Most of the books written in the nineteenth century are fantastic high adventures. The only realistic work during this period is The Sea Lions (1849) by James Fenimore Cooper which deals with fur sealing in the South Shetland Islands area.

In The Sea Lions, Cooper drew on his own personal experience as an American naval officer and a major owner of the whaler "Union" of Sag Harbor to tell a story of sealing in the Antarctic. His early interest in the polar regions is shown in his review of William Scoresby's books on "whale-fishery" and William Edward Parry's Arctic journal of 1819-1820 published in the Literary and Scientific Repository and Critical Review of January 1822. His friendship with the family of the American naval Antarctic explorer Charles Wilkes and the publicity of the British Franklin polar disaster kept that interest kindled throughout the rest of his life.

Towards the end of that life, Cooper finally drew upon his knowledge to produce what Fredericka Martin (1946) describes as "The most definitive and coherent description of a seal hunt". Unfortunately the merits of this novel have been overlooked because it was written as a romance of religious conversion.

For the reading public, the Antarctic "heroic age" begins with publication in 1900 of Frederick Cook's book Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899 and continues to the International Geophysical Year of 1958. Novels based on occurrences during historic expeditions and whaling adventures appear during this time, and there is a small series of excellent science fiction stories dealing with the Antarctic. John Martin Leahy wrote "In Amundsen's Tent" (1930) in which three explorers find a living horror in Amundsen's south polar tent. A. Hyatt Veril prefers to populate his region "Beyond the Pole" (1926) with lobster-like humanoids. H. P. Lovecraft introduces a two-million-year-old Palaeogean Megalopolis which lies at an altitude of 23,570 feet in At the Mountain of Madness (1936). But ask any sci-fi fan about a monster from outer space, that can change configuration at will, being loose on an Antarctic station and he or she will respond immediately: "The Thing!" This movie was based on the story "Who Goes There?" (1938) by John W. Campbell, Jr. and has become a classic horror film.

On February 9, 1947, Admiral Richard Byrd and his crew took off from Little America and flew the first airplane flight over the South Pole (Rose 1980). This was the highlight of Operation Highjump as far as the general public was concerned. In 1969, Raymond Bernard wrote The Hollow Earth, and the legend of "Admiral Byrd's discovery" took flight. With complete disregard to Operation Highjump, Bernard wrote:

February, 1947: "I'd like to see that land beyond the (North) Pole. That area beyond the Pole is the center of the Great Unknown".

— Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (United States Navy), before his seven-hour flight of 1,700 miles beyond the North Pole.

Admiral Byrd was in Antarctica at that time. I assume that this quote refers to the Antarctic continent beyond the South Pole. It certainly was the "Great Unknown" at that time.

The last part of the twentieth century brought a dramatic change in Antarctic fiction: an increase in stories of worldwide catastrophe and tourism. The causes of worldwide catastrophe or alarm are many, from x-ray impulses from a deep space quasar (Airship Nine by Thomas Block, 1984) to a volcanic plume under the Ross Ice Shelf (Cold Sea Rising by Richard Moran, 1986). The effects vary from war to problems of ice. James Follett (Ice, 1977) envisions an 8,000 cubic mile portion of the ice cap breaking off from the continent, and traveling to the north Atlantic area. Crawford Kilian (Icequake, 1979) describes a massive surge of the ice cap.

The Antarctic as the cause of global disaster is not a new one. Peter Bishop (1989) speaks of The Abode of Snow written by Andrew Wilson in 1875.

The true 'Abode of Snow', he wrote, was not the Himalayas, nor even the Arctic, but the Antarctic. Wilson argued that as the ice accumulates around the South Pole, a point must be reached when: the balance of the earth must be suddenly destroyed, and this orb shall almost instantaneously turn traversely to its axis, moving the great oceans, and so producing one of those cyclical catastrophes which ... have before now interfered with the development and the civilization of the human race.

 

Charles McCarry would probably be startled to learn that his book The Better Angels (1979) is listed on a bibliography of Antarctic fiction. It is a novel of Near East intrigue, but there are a few sentences devoted to noting the fact that the hero's children are touring the Antarctic on their stepfather's yacht. This is a rare mention of tourism by private means. Cruise ships are part of Hungry As The Sea (Wilbur Smith, 1978) and Storehouses of the Snow (Edwin Woodard and Heather Woodard Bischoff, 1980). John Gordon Davis uses a helium-filled airship to attempt to rescue tourists from a DC-10 crash on the Beardmore Glacier (Seize The Wind, 1985). Charles Neider has drawn upon his own experience of survival from a helicopter crash on Mt. Erebus in a novel about a tourist plane crash and helicopter crash on the volcano (Overflight, 1986).

It is Crispin Kitto who has drawn the curtain on Antarctica as a land of mystery. In The Antarctica Cookbook (1984), an East Hollywood chef obtains permission to build a summer home on Ross Island between the historic huts of Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton.

As the century comes to a close, the cry "Tekili-li" is once more heard. After Richard Lupoff (1984) sent Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Howard Hughes on a circumpolar air race through the southern Symmes' Hole, Rudy Rucker (1990) took up his pen and sent Mason Reynolds, Jeremiah Reynolds and Edgar Allan Poe into the hollow Earth from the south polar regions.

Most of us are like Ian Wedde (1986), author of the novel Symmes Hole, who is content to dream about southern adventures from the safe distance of New Zealand. Perhaps there are one or two of us who occasionally shout "Tekili-li" in the privacy of our own homes.

 

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTARCTIC FICTION


A.F.M. "An Interview With An Emperor". Aurora Australis. Published at the Winter Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, during the winter months of April, May, June, July, 1908.

Two men go for a walk on a perfect Antarctic night. They meet a six-foot emperor penguin dressed in a velveteen coat, a white moleskin waistcoat with brass buttons, and baggy trousers. The presumed gamekeeper leads the men back to the march and sends them away.
Abbey, Lloyd. The Last Whales. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. This is a story of whales, dolphins, and nuclear winter.
Abramov, Aleksander and Sergei Abramov. Horsemen From Nowhere. Moscow: Mir Publications, 1969. Translated from the Russian by George Yankovsky. A Russian tractor crew in the Antarctic comes upon rose-colored clouds that can duplicate people and places. The clouds are removing the ice shields of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Adams, Eustace L. Over The Polar Ice (Andy Lane Series). Racine: Whitman Publishing Co., 1928. A teenage aviator flies from New York to the South Pole and back.
Anderson, Edna. The Ice-Bound Treasures. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison & Company, Inc., 1968. Originally published 1961. Gold is discovered on Petrel Island and two men vanish from a nearby weather station. Merdith Ashley and his twin sons, Stan and Eric, fly to the area to investigate.
Andreae, Johann Valentin. Christianopolis. Translated by Felix Emil Held, Ph.D. New York: Oxford University Press, 1916. An authorized reprint by University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1966. Originally published: Amsterdam: 1619. The hero leaves port on the ship "Phantasy" which sinks during a violent storm on the Mare Aethiopicum. Clinging to debris, he comes ashore on an idyllic island in the Antarctic Zone, 10 degrees of the south pole, 20 degrees of the equinoctial circle and 12 degrees under the point of the bull. He discovers a large, utopian, inhabited city named Christianopolis.
Andrew, Margaret. Flight To Antarctica. Cambridge: The Burlington Press, 1985. Two children wish themselves to Antarctica. Their adventures take them from the home of the Marwans in Victoria Land, Gondwana, to the Gonds and Guardians inside Mt. Tyree.
Andrews, John Williams. Triptych For The Atomic Age. "Antarctica: A Narrative of the Bubble Nothing". Boston: Branden Press, 1970. "'Antarctica' was written on commission for Columbia Broadcasting System for production by Columbia Workshop. It appeared first in print in POET LORE, A National Quarterly of World Poetry and the Drama".

A group of men fly to the South Pole and find its meaning.


Anonymous. Documents relating to the Federal State of the Dougerthy [sic] and Hesperies [sic] Islands, Stapol, 15 June, 1965. Received at the Australian Consulate-General and other embassies in Madrid, Spain, on 21 July, 1965.


Anonymous. Voyage de Robertson, Aux Terres Australes. Amsterdam: 1767. Translated from English.

Robertson sails due west from Chili [sic] for a month. He finds a land which le Chevalier Drake thought was a continent. This land is inhabited by what Le Seigneur Taumelli calls "Australiens".

Note: Australia was known as New Holland in 1767 (Buache Map 1763).


Anonymous. Le Pôle Sud. Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1898. Traduit de L'Anglais Par Harold.

The crew of a whaler spends a winter in the Antarctic with the native population of Esquimaux and polar bears.
Appleton, Victor II. Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1954. Tom Swift leads an expedition to the South Pole to mine the iron at the center of the Earth.
Armstrong, Richard. The Secret Sea. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1966. The whaler "Orion" and its catchers penetrate the Antarctic ice pack to a secret sea. Disaster strikes.
Arthur, Elizabeth. Antarctic Navigation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. A young woman recreates Robert Falcon Scott's last polar journey.
Bagley, Desmond. The Snow Tiger. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Mike McGill does some avalanche protection studies in New Zealand and before going to his assigned duties at the South Pole.
Bailey, Auden. Drifting at the Bottom of the World. Ferndale: Bella Books, 2002. Miss Angus MacNeill Jones went to work in the Antarctic where she met Jubilee Oval, a creator of Antarctic myths.
Baldwin, Bee. The Red Dust. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1965. Seismic sounding creates a great fissure near Mt. Erebus. Great clouds of red loess explode from the fissure covering Earth with a lethal Allergy. A passenger ship from England, with a few surviving Immunes on board, arrives in New Zealand and confronts a group of mad scientists.
Banks, Iain. The Business. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore: Simon & Schuster, 1999). The Business is the only non-govermental organization to own a base in Antarctica. It is located in Kronprinsesse Euphemia Land. Kathryn Telman knows it exists but she is too busy to go there.
Banks, David. Iceberg. London: Doctor Who Books, 1993. Ruby Duval boards S.S. Elysium for a cruise to the Antarctic. During her adventures she meets The Doctor and Cybermen.
Barjavel, Rene. The Ice People (La Nuit Des Temps). New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1971. Originally published: Les Presses de la Cité in 1968. A French Antarctic expedition finds the remains of a 900,000 year old civilization under the south polar ice cap. A woman, Elea, is awakened.
Barker, Nicholas and Anthony Marter. Red Ice. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. The death of James Maxwell, captain of the British naval ship "Mercatos", is essential for the success of the plans of the terrorist organization, Ola Roja, in the Antarctic. They stalk him from Uruguay to the Antarctic Peninsula.
Barrett, Michael. Antarctic Secret. New York: Roy Publications Inc., 1965. An American manned spacecraft, with the British Project Javelin secret space weapon aboard, crash lands in Antarctica. A British Intelligence officer is sent to retrieve Javelin.
Bartram, George. Under the Freeze. London: Arrow Books Limited, 1986. The search for missing Russian plutonium leads an American agent to a sunken ship in the Antarctic.
Batchelor, John Calvin. The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica. New York: The Dial Press, 1983. Skullagrim Fiddle, driven from Sweden, the Falklands and South Georgia Island during the Age of Exile, becomes the warlord of Anvers Island. His final flight is to Elephant Island where he is a prisoner for 29 years.
Bauer, E. "The Forgotten World". Amazing Stories: pp. 436-444, August 1931. An oceanographer returns to Discovery Bay after 30 years and learns that an old school mate, who was supposedly lost flying over the South Pole, has survived in a warm inhabited valley near the active volcano Mt. Noen.
Baxter, Stephen. Anti-ice. New York: Harper Prism, 1994. Originally published: Britain: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. Four Englishmen reach the moon in 1870 in a spacecraft powered by anti-ice, a super fuel discovered by Captain Ross during his dog-team journey south of Cape Adare.
Bayle, Luc Marie. Le Voyage de la Nouvelle Incomprise. Paris: la Sociétè "l'OFFSET' à Levalloise, 1953. Exemplaire No. 123 Imprimé spécialment pour Monsieur le Vice-Amiral de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa. The polar voyage of "Nouvelle Incomprise" is printed in handwritten script. There are many pen-and-ink drawings of people, places and penguins.
Beale, Charles Willing. The Secret of the Earth. New York: Arno Press, 1975. Originally published: 1899. Two brothers fly into the hollow earth on a homemade airship. They enter through the North Pole and exit from the South Pole. The temperature in the Antarctic at 11,280 feet is -91°.

Note: The average altitude for the south polar plateau is about 10,000 feet. A temperature of approximately 129° below zero, Fahrenheit, was recorded in July, 1983, at Russia's Vostok Base (78° 28'S, 106° 48'E) (Chipman 1990).


Beck, Christopher. The People of the Chasm. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1923. Dick and Monty Vince put their plane aboard M. Javelot's ship "Penguin" and sail to Antarctica. They locate Anton Javelot in a green valley populated by small people, apes and an assortment of monsters.
Becker, Hyam Yona. The Temple of Ha Shem. Jerusalem: Gafen Publishing House, Ltd., 1997. Shlomo Tzabok leads an Israeli expedition to the Sinai mountain chain of Antarctica. His prime companion is the Eskimo Enki. They discover a 4,000 year-old culture based on the Nfm Skoog's space ship.
Beliayev, Aleksander. The Struggle in Space: Red Dreams Soviet-American War. Translated by Albert Perry. Washington, D.C.: Arfor Publishers, 1965. Originally published in 1928. A Russian finds himself transported into the future in a city called Radiopolis. A war against America begins and ends in a submarine town in the area of the South Pole.
Bellow, Saul. More Die of Heartbreak. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987. Uncle Benn spent a season in Antarctica. He made a helicopter expedition to collect lichens.
Benjamin, Philip. Quick, Before It Melts. New York: Random House, 1964. A journalist from Sage Magazine is sent to the Antarctic to report on the International Geophysical Year. Wending his way through raucous adventures, he engineers a spectacular "scoop".
Bennett, C. H. Surprising, Unheard of and Never-To-Be Surpassed Adventures of Young Munchausen. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865. The fifth story. Munchausen is traveling on a high-pressure engine in Pennsylvania when it explodes. He is hurled across the Pacific Ocean and hits his forehead in the South Pole. He lives with the South Polacks for several weeks.
Billing, Graham. Forbush and the Penguins. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. A scientist lives alone in an historic hut to study penguins.

Binder, Eando. Lords of Creation. Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1949. Originally published: The Frank A. Munsey Co., 1939.

Homer Ellory of 1950 A.D. is revived in a time-capsule crypt in 5000 A.D. The Outlanders of the Kaatskills are held in bondage by the Antarkans. Humrelly (Homer) rummages through the ruins of New York to find the means of conquering Antarka.

Note: This is one of the rare pre-WW II stories that mention atomic bombs. The United States government ignored these science fiction prophesies so that the "Manhattan Project" could continue in secrecy.


(Bird, Robert Montgomery). "The Ice Island". Philadelphia Monthly Magazine, vol. 1, pp. 109-114, 1827. A man is marooned on an iceberg with a pine tree imbedded in it.

Note: In 1820, John Miers declared that Norwegian pines had been spotted on one of the South Shetland Islands (Miers 1820).


Bisbee, Eugene. The Treasure of the Ice. London, New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898. Six explorers leave New York aboard the whaler "Polaris". They survive a shipwreck near the South Pole in a volcanic region inhabited by descendants of ancient Greece.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. The Antarctic Scoop. New York: Holiday House, 2003. Victoria Von Woolf, age 12, wins the science test sponsored by the "Wild X-plorer" online magazine. Her prize: a trip to Antarctica.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "the breath of seals". Best Lesbian Love Stories, 2004, pp. 1-14. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2004. Roz Frick, a McMurdo Station worker, thinks about a Christmas card she has received.
Block, Thomas. Airship Nine. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1985. Originally published: G. P. Putnam's Son's, 1984. X-ray impulses from deep space quasar 3C73 start World War III. Americans and Russians fight for survival in Antarctica.
Bonnell, Captain Ralph. Lost in the Land of Ice. New York: A. Wessels Company, 1902. The young owner of the yacht "Arrow" travels to the Land of Desolation beyond Palmer's Land-Graham Land in search of a treasure ship and the answer to a mystery. He and two companions are marooned on an iceberg and are attacked by polar bears. A bloodthirsty species of condor carries one of the men to a yonder summit. "Arrow" then sails to the South Pole where the men experience the peculiar effects of polar magnetism.
Booth, Albert J. Harpoon Harry, or the Castaways of the Antarctic. New York: The Boys of New York Pocket Library, no. 164, 1883. Compliments of Edward J. Lefkowicz: from a paper entitled "The Whales They Wrote And How They Did It" that he gave at the 17th Annual Whaling Symposium, the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts, October 17, 1992. Harry Harpoon and a mutineer are castaway on the Antarctic continent. Harry kills a polar bear with a knife.
Bouvé, Edward T. Centuries Apart. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1894. A 19th Century U.S. Army expedition blown south of Africa discovers a warm current which flows south into an open polar sea. A large colony of 16th century Englishmen is found living on a large polar island.

Note: Carstens Borchgrevink made two trips to the Antarctic: 1894-1895 under Captain Leonard Kristensen, and 1898-1900 as leader of his own expedition. He reputedly found a warm current flowing south in the region of Cape Adare (71° 17'S, 170° 14'E) (Cameron 1974).


Brinkley, William. The Last Ship. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989. 158 Russian and American naval personnel aboard the submarine "Pushkin" arrive at McMurdo Station a few years after a global nuclear war. They find that the area is deserted and contains enough stores for 12 years.
Brittanico, Mercurio (Bishop Joseph Hall). Mundus Alter Et Idem (Another World And Yet The Same). Translated and edited by John Millar Wands. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1981. An edition entitled The Discovery of a New World edited by Huntington Brown was published Cambridge: Harvard University, 1937. Originally published: Frankfort: At the House of the Heirs of Ascanius de Rinialme, 1605. English edition by John Healey, 1609. A traveler to the Antarctic Continent finds that it is inhabited by gluttons, drunkards and eccentrics.

Note: "Mundus" has traditionally been considered a source for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Amis 1960).


Brockmeier, Kevin. The Brief History of the Dead. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. The city of the dead is filled with victims of "the epidemic" on Earth. Laura Byrd seems to be the only survivor in Antarctica.
Brown, A. Voyage A Dos De Baleine: Aventures Du Capitaine Bob Kincardy. Paris: Librairie Gédalge Jeune, ca. 1890. Capitaine Kincardy leaves Alaska to travel the oceans in an elegant hut on the back of a whale. He and his crew reach les Shetland du Sud. Beds of lava alternating with beds of ice result in a shore that is inaccessible.
Browning, Scott. Searchers. Los Angeles: Cougar Press, 2001. Two brothers go to the Antarctic to locate the camp of a 1909 expedition. They learn that they live a space-time displacement life.
Brunner, Hans. Survivors! London, Basingstoke: MacMillan Children's Books, 1989. Originally published: Unternehmen Eisohr, Switzerland: Verlag AARE Solothurn, 1987. Young Peter Bush sails aboard "Almax Venturer" out of Australia to Rotterdam. The tanker catches fire in the subantarctic region and a few of the crew are cast upon an uninhabited island.
Brussof, Valery (Valerii Briusov). "The Republic of the Southern Cross". The Republic of the Southern Cross and Other Stories. Westport: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1977. Originally published: London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1918. The inhabitants of Zvezdny are stricken with a fatal psychical distemper, resulting in death and destruction in the southern polar regions.
Buchan, James. High Latitudes. New York: Marlowe & Company, 1996. Jane Bellarmine, a business genius, is shocked when her ex-husband, Lord Bellarmine, flies to the South Pole in a chartered airplane. He then becomes marooned on Foundation Glacier.
Bullen, Frank T. The Bitter South. London: Robert Culley, earlier than October 22, 1912. Captain Ted Trevanion and his two sons sail from England aboard "Susan". After a successful sealing and whaling voyage in the South Shetland Islands area, they are set adrift by mutineers and saved when they discover the deserted ship "Alcmena".
Burke, David. Monday At McMurdo. Wellington, Auckland, Sydney: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1967. A plane, carrying a U.S. Congressman and assistants, crashes on the Tom Thumb Glacier. The Naval VX6 detachment commander at McMurdo flies a rescue mission.
Burke, John. Empress Hunter: 2010. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, 2002. Henry Wu escapes execution at the International Maximum Security Prision in Victoria Land, Antarctica. He is rescued by one of three Chinese vessels. American ships stalk the Chinese ships.
Burks, Arthur J. "The Fatal Quadrant". Astounding Stories: vol. XX, no. 6, February 1938. Sherman Geddes, his sister Zora, Judson Draper, and two crates of manlike robots set up a laboratory many miles south of the Bay of Whales. They discover an ancient city buried under the ice.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: A trilogy.

The Land That Time Forgot. New York: Ace Books, 1973. Originally published: Blue Book Magazine, August 1918.

The People That Time Forgot. New York: Ace Books, 1973. Originally published: Blue Book Magazine, October, 1918.

Out of Time's Abyss. London: Tandem, 1975. Originally published: Story Press Corp., 1918.

An American liner, traveling to France during World War I, is torpedoed by a German submarine. The survivors are rescued by a British ocean-going tug which is then sunk by the German submarine "U-33". The survivors of the tug then capture "U-33" and sail due south during a storm, eventually landing within sight of Antarctic icebergs on an enormous collapsed caldera named Caprona (Caspak). The crew of "U-33" then discovers that this land is inhabited by exotic animals and peoples, many of which had been thought to be extinct.
Caine, Hall. The Woman Thou Gavest Me. Philadelphia, London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913. An Antarctic explorer has a child by his sweetheart who has been forced into marriage with a British lord. Cameron, Ian. The White Ship. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. In 1819, the brig "San Delmar" was wrecked on Candlemas Island, an active volcanic island in the South Sandwich archipelago. In 1974, a young graduate historian is possessed by one of the passengers of "San Delmar". She induces the British Antarctic Survey to send an expedition to the island.

Note: "San Telmo" sailed from Cadiz bound for the Pacific area and encountered severe weather while rounding the Horn. Dismasted and rudderless, she was taken in tow by "Primerosa Mariana". However, the hawsers parted and she was considered lost at about 62° S on September 4, 1819. Her anchor-stock was found at Shirreff Cove on Livingston Island in 1820 (Roberts 1958).


Campbell, John W. Jr. "Who Goes There?" They Came From Outer Space. Edited by Jim Wynorski. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1980. Originally published under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart: Astounding Science Fiction, page 60, August, 1938. A monster from outer space that can change configuration at will is loose in an Antarctic station.
Carroll, Ruth and Latrobe. Luck of the Roll and Go. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1935. The kitten "Luck" climbs aboard the ship "Roll and Go", and thus joins an Antarctic expedition.
Catherall, Arthur. Vanished Whaler. London, Edinburgh, Paris, Melbourne, Toronto, New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1953. Originally published 1939. The whaler "King Haakon" is at anchor in the Balleny Islands. The whale-chaser "Oslo" tries to hide after the crew discovers a gold-laden ship of the Spanish Armada era.
Cendrars, Blaise. The Antarctic Fugue. Translator not listed. London, Winchmore Hill: Barnard & Westwood, 1948. Also published as Dan Yack. Translated by Nina Rootes. New York: Michael Kesend Publishing Ltd., 1987. Originally published as Le Plan de L'Aiguille, Paris: Editions Denoël, 1927. A British millionaire and three companions winter over in an old sealer's hut on Sturge Island in the Balleny group. He then builds an all-year whaling products factory in Port Deception.

Note: The island is spelled "Struge" in the 1927 and 1948 editions. The correct spelling "Sturge" is used in the 1987 edition.


Cerasini, Marc. Godzilla at World's End. New York: Random House, 1998. Zoe Kemmering and her father's corpse disappear into a deep hole in Wilkes Land. The crew of the airship "Destiny Explorer" fly into the hole (now 100 miles in diameter at the South Pole) in search of her. Godzilla follows them.
Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. New York: Random House, 2000. On December 14, 1941, Joe Kavalier joins the U.S. Navy and is stationed at Kelvinator Station (Naval Station SD-AZ(R)) in Antarctica. As Radioman Second Class he monitors the Germans in Queen Maud Land.
Charbonneau, Louis. The Ice. New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1991. Environmentalists engage a group of industrial mining prospectors in a deadly battle of wits on the opposite side of the Antarctic continent from the Ross Ice Shelf.
Chester, George Randolph. The Jingo, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912. Jimmy Smith builds an "American" Utopia in Isola.

Note: Several authors have listed the book as Antarctic fiction, but this cannot be confirmed. [I have read the book three times.]


Christie, Agatha. Ordeal By Innocence. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1991. Originally published: London: Collins, 1958. Dr. Arthur Calgary, geophysicist with the Hayes Bentley expedition to Antarctica, returns to England and discovers that he was the alibi for a late murder suspect.
Clair, Daphne. Frozen Heart. London: Mills & Boon Limited, 1980. A young female journalist and psychologist spends an Antarctic summer and winter as the only woman crew member of a New Zealand station. Her main accomplishment is the love of the base commander.
Clark, Captain Charles. An Antarctic Queen. London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1902. Five survivors of a ship wrecked on a floating ice-island 660 miles SSW of Diego Ramirez Island discover Lastfoundland and a Fuegan castaway.

Note: Many non-Antarctic flora and fauna are described.


Clark, C. Dunning. Walt Ferguson's Cruise: A Tale of the Antarctic Sea. Beadles Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, vol. IV, no. 42. New York: M. J. Ivers & Co., 1885. Portugues Pete is paid to kill Walt Ferguson. Walt survives several attachs by Pete, mutinous men, and three white bears. The villains do not survice the mutiny.
Clark, Joan. Latitudes of Melt. New York: Soho Press, Inc., 2002. Stan goes to Scott Base on McMurdo Sound to measure the rate of ice flow.
Clough, Brenda W. "May Be Some Time". Analog Science Fiction and Fact (formerly Astounding): pp. 10-41, April 2001. Published by Analog Science Fiction and Fact. In the year 2045, a group of doctors from the Time Travel Division of the Fortis (4T) Project locate Titus Oates' frozen body. They move him from Antarctica to New York and revive him. His eventual destination is to be Tau Ceti in the constellation Cetus.
Cobb, James H. Choosers of the Slain. New York: G. P. Putnam, Sons, 1996. Two thousand troops from Argentina invade the British research base on Signy Island. The American stealth destroyer "USS Cunningham", Amanda Garrett commanding, responds by crippling the Argentinian fleet.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1952. Originally published in Lyrical Ballads, 1798. A ship, sailing in the Southern Ocean, is cursed when a mariner kills an albatross, a pious bird of good omen.
Collins, Dale. Lost. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933. A group of British and American passengers aboard "Avonbridge" are shipwrecked off Thompson Island. They discover an inhabitant who had been shipwrecked eighteen years before.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Monikins. New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1860. Originally published: Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, July 9, 1835. London: Richard Bentley, July 4, 1835. A British baronet rescues four south polar Monikins from captivity and returns them to their home, the kingdom of Leaphigh. He learns that when the Earth exploded at the Pole the result was an open sea and a steamy climate.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Sea Lions. New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1860. Originally published: New York: Stringer and Townsend, April 10, 1849. London: Richard Bentley, March 29, 1849. Two rival schooners named "Sea Lion" search for a mysterious sealing ground in the Antarctic sea.
Cowan, Frank. Revi-Lona: A Romance of Love in a Marvelous Land. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Originally printed privately in 1880s. Dr. Anson Oliver (also known as Alexander Newton) awakes to discover that he is the only person aboard the whaler "Southern Cross". The derelict ship has penetrated the southern polar wall of ice and reached the land of Revi-Lona governed by twenty-five beautiful women.
Crichton, Michael. State of Fear. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2004. The Environmental Liberation Front is buying high technology. A group flies to a station in Antarctica near Mount Terror to investigate. They learn that the ELF trail leads to the South Pacific Islands.
Crisp, Frank. The Ice Divers. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1960. Dirk Rogers, salvage master and deep-sea diver, his cousin Jim Cartwright and Jose Pepito are hired aboard the whaler "Ballarat" to solve the mysterious disappearance of two men.
Cummings, Ray. "The Snow Girl". Argosy: vol. 207, no. 5, pp. 577-796, 1929, Saturday, November 2. "Next Week": pp. 91-107. New Week: pp. 264-280. Three Americans are captured by Naina, daughter of the White Bandit, ruler of the native Antarcticans and creator of the "Blue Blizzards". They are taken to her stronghold in the 15,000 foot Weddell Mountains and told of her plans to drive the Americans out of Antarctica.
Cussler, Clive. Atlantis Found. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. After meeting in the mountains of Colorado, Dirk Pitt and Patricia O'Connell, Ph.D., now search for more undeciphered ancient writings on the Crozet Islands and Antarctica. They learn that the wealthy Wolf family members from Nazi Germany are also in the Antarctic and are in the process of completing elaborate preparations to survive a comet impact on Earth.
Cussler, Clive. Shock Wave. New York, London, Toronto, Sidney, Tokyo, Singapore: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Tourists from aboard "Polar Queen" survive a powerful sonic bombardment. They are transported from Seymour Island to King George Island by the NUMA vessel "Ice Hunter".
Cussler, Clive. Treasure. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Pocket Books, 1988. The area of the Antarctic Peninsula is searched by an American "Casper" stealth reconnaissance plane for a missing yacht.
Cussler, Clive. Valhalla Rising. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. Admiral Sandecker wants to send Dirk Pitt back to Antarctica "in an attempt to penetrate the ice down to the vast lake scientists believe is under the ice cap."
Dake, Charles Romyn. A Strange Discovery. Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. A reprint edition. Originally published: New York: H. Ingalls Kimball, 1899. A sequel to Poe's "Narrative". Pym and Peters discover a continent a hundred miles in diameter at the South Pole, that is a giant volcano with a central space of boiling lava. Nearby is the large island of Hili-li that is populated by descendants of ancient Romans.
Darrieussecq, Marie. White. Translated by Ian Monk. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2005 (2003). Pete Tomson and Eamée Polanco work in the Antarctic and fall in love.
Davis, Gerry. Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet. London: A Target Book, 1976. TARDIS, Dr. Who's time traveler capsule, lands at "Snowcap" tracking station at the South Pole. The Cybermen from the planet Mondas land on Earth and plan to drain its energy.
Davis, John Gordon. Cape of Storms. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. A nurse and a marine biologist ship out from Capetown aboard the All England Whaling Company factory ship "Icehammer" and catcher "Fourteen". Racial violence plagues the voyage and return to Africa.

Note: The venerable Norwegian whaling factory ship "Thorshammer" first appeared in Antarctic annals in 1928, and made many subsequent trips (Roberts 1958).


Davis, John Gordon. Leviathan. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976. The director of Magnus Oceanics takes his ship and crew to the Antarctic to blow up the Russian factory ship "Slava".
Davis, John Gordon. Seize The Wind. New York: Stein and Day, 1985. An Australian DC-10 filled with tourists crashes on the Beardmore Glacier. A British helium-filled airship attempts a rescue during a blizzard.

Note: On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 with 257 tourists and crew aboard crashed on the slopes of Mt. Erebus. There were no survivors (San Francisco Examiner 1979).


Dee, Sheryn. Tarin of the Ice. Melbourne: Nelson Publishers in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1987. Tarin of the Ice-people sets out from Antarctica on a voyage to find his sister Yasni. He is taken aboard a Norwegian whaler which, eventually, leads him to Yasni.
Defoe, Daniel. A New Voyage Round The World, By A Course Never Sailed Before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants who afterwards proposed the setting up of an East India Company in Flanders. New York: George D. Sproul, 1904. Originally published: November 1724. A private merchant ship reaches a farthest south at 67° S by sailing southeast through the South Seas from the Ladrones.
de Foigny, Gabriel. The Southern Land, Known. Translated and edited by David Faysett. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993. La Terre Australe, Connue was originally published in Geneva, 1676. Through a series of shipwrecks, Sadeur lands on a strange southern land inhabited by hermaphrodites. The polar end of this country contains mountains more inaccessible than the Pyrenees.
de Mille, James. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888, published posthumously. The poles of the Earth are flattened and nearer to the hot core than at the lower latitudes. The south polar lands and vast inland sea are therefore warm. A marooned seaman discovers and lives with a group of Troglodytes, one of several native polar peoples.
(De Varennes de Mondasse). La Découverte de L'Empire de Cantahar. Paris: Chez Pierre Prault, 1730. The narrator joins M. de Horstrone, in command of the warship "Fredelingue", and leaves Amsterdam on 4 January 1705 for the Cap de bonne Esperance (Cape of Good Hope). The ship is blown south by a northwest wind resulting in the discovery of the island of Cantahar.
Dickens, Charles with Wilkie Collins. "The Wreck of the Golden Mary". Short Stories of the Sea. Edited by George C. Solley, Eric Steinbaugh, David O. Tomlinson. Annapolis: The Naval Institute Press, 1984. Originally published as a title piece of the extra Christmas number of Household Words, 1856. A British Merchant ship bound for California is wrecked near 58° S, 60° W off New South Shetland.
Dickie, F.E. Davy. Snow In Summer. Edinburgh, London: Oliver & Boyd Ltd., 1967. Young Peter Tender of New Zealand joins an Antarctic expedition as part of his education.
Dickson, G. R. Secret Under Antarctica. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. A boy goes to Antarctica as an assistant to his scientist father. Under the ice, he discovers a submarine yacht which houses the Tropican movement to reassemble Gondwanaland.
Dietrich, William. Dark Winter. New York: Warner, 2001. Jed Lewis, a geologist, arrives at Amundsen-Scott Station for the winter. The killing begins.
Dietrich, William, Ice Reich. New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1998. The American pilot Owen Hart is hired by Hermann Göring to sail to Antarctica in "Schwabenland". They discover the volcanic Atropos Island, home of a spore that is swiftly fatal and its slimy antidote.

Note: The German ship "Schwabenland" spent three weeks off Queen Maud Land in January 1939 (Headland 1989).


Dillberg, Gustaf, Genom Den Försvunna Sydpolen (Through the Disappearing South Pole). Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, 1902. Translated from English by Disa Törnqvist. Erik Svensson translated passages from Swedish. Explorers discover that the South Pole is missing. They venture through to lost South Pole into the enchanted world of the flying Count of the Abyss. They discover Zenaland, Kleopatraland and Brindonaland.
Dixon, Franklin W. Lost at the South Pole or Ted Scott in Blizzard Land (Ted Scott Flying Series). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. A young aviator is involved in a race to become the first to fly over the South Pole. Base camp is presumably near to where the Queen Maud Range is joined by Carmen Land. The hero is attacked by a great auk.

Note: The flightless great auk was an arctic bird which became extinct in 1844 (Peterson 1979).


Dixon, Franklin W. The Stone Idol (The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #65). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2005. Copyright 1981 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Frank and Joe Hardy are working on a case in Chile when their father, Fenton Hardy, calls them to Antarctica to work on another case.
Dobson, Rosemary. The Ship of Ice, with other poems. Melbourne: A&R, 1948. (Publishing information courtesy of Robert A. Swan). The seven voices of the Captain and crew of "Jenny", frozen in the Antarctic for many years, speak to each other.

Note: In 1823, the English schooner "Jenny" became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Antarctic Circle. On 22 September 1860, the ship was discovered by Captain Brighton of "Hope" who found the bodies in a perfect state of preservation. (Dobson 1948). "Jenny" was reported drifting in Drake Passage by the whaler "Hope" in 1840. The log had been kept until 17 January 1823. (Headland 1989 as noted in Globus 1862. No corroborative evidence found.)
Doherty, Robert. Area 51. New York: Dell Publishing, 1997. In 1956, the United States Navy found seven bouncers (UFOs) under the Antarctic ice.
Doherty, Robert. The Citadel. New York: Harper, 2007. Probably part of The Organization buried some atomic bombs under the ice in Antarctica. Captain Jim Vaughan and Tai try to find them.
Dorfman, Ariel. The Nanny and the Iceberg. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. A young impotent man returns to Chile to confront his father. While there, he participates in the project of capturing an Antarctic iceberg for the exposition in Sevilla.

Note: A World's Fair did take place in Sevilla, Spain, in 1992.
Douglas, Scott. Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea.* *The Novel Which Ended the Cold War. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, LLP, 2005. Professor Sam White and Dr. Toby Parrish leave McMurdo Station for Mulock Glacier. Mt. Erebus erupts. The U.S. submarine "Athena" receives a distress call from McMurdo.
Drummond, Hamilton. "A Secret of the South Pole." The Windsor Magazine, vol. XV, December 1901 to May 1902, pp. 612-620. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1902. Cap'n Towson and two crew men are adrift south of the equator. They find a three hundred year-old ship, smoothed by the ice of the Antarctic drift. The air inside the ship is frozen by something smashed on the floor.
Duff, Douglas V. The Treasure of the Antarctic. London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, ca. 1935. Captain Samways and his twin sons, Tostig and Sweyn, are told about a map of a pitchblende vein on Mount Hooker in the Antarctic. They locate the map in the crypt of an Orthodox Cathedral in Israel and then sail south to mine the radium.
Du Perron de Castera, Louis Adrien. Le Theatre de Passion et De La Fortune ou Les Avantures Surprenantes de Rosamidor et de Theoglaphire. Paris: Chez Saugrain, 1731. A story told by an Indian philosopher about peoples living on a spacious continent, surrounded by islands, located towards Le Pôle du Midi (South Pole). These lands were known to the Greeks who probed the evidence of voyageurs Phéniciens (Phoenician voyagers).
Eberhard, Wolfram. A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols. London, New York: Routledge, 1989. Originally published as Lexikon Chinesischer Symbole, Cologne: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1983. This edition first translated and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1986. "In Chinese cosmological symbolism the South is the region of life". According to the legend, the god of longevity lives in a palace at the South Pole as "nan-ji shou-xing" (The Immortal of the Southern Pole).
Eckert, Allan W. The HAB Theory. New York: Popular Library, 1977. Originally published Little, Brown & Company, 1976. The Antarctic icecap buildup causes the earth to capsize. The pivotal points are off the Philippine Islands and Kenya. The presidents of the United States and Kenya cooperate to preserve a remnant of civilization.
Edwards, Hazel. Antarctica's Frozen Chosen. South Melbourne: Thomas C. Lothiani Pty. Ltd., 2003. The ship that Kyle is aboard on his way to Antarctica meets Patagonian toothfish poachers. Later, Kyle discovers a terrorist on board his ship.

Note: See Hooked by G. Bruce Knecht.
Emerson, Willis George. "The Smoky God". Fram The Journal of Polar Studies: vol. 1, no. 2, 1984 summer issue. Originally published: The National Magazine: 1907-1908. A father and son sail into the earth through the North Pole, enjoy the inhabited lands in the center of the Earth, and emerge at the South Pole. After dodging icebergs for 45 days, the craft is destroyed by a capsizing iceberg and the father is killed.
(Erskine, Thomas). Armata; A fragment. London: John Murray, Part I, 1816; Part II, 1817. A British sailor discovers a twin planet of Earth joined to it at the South Pole by two channels with strong currents flowing in opposite directions.
Espinasse, Bernard and J. C. Williamson. Australis; or the City of Zero (a pantomime). Sydney: J. Andrew & Co., 1900. The surviving copy is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia. This information is from the State Library of Victoria, courtesy of Elizabeth Chipman. In the year 2000, Australia annexes the City of Zero located at the South Pole which is ruled by the evil wizard Azeemath. He is disposed and Dione is crowned Queen.
Evans, Admiral Sir Edward, K.C.B., D.S.O. The Mystery of "The Polar Star". London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1930s? Midshipman Clive Austin takes a leave from the Royal Navy to sail as a junior officer aboard the whaler "Endeavour". The goal of the voyage is the rescue of the whaler "Polar Star" which has vanished in the Antarctic.
Farmer, Beverly. The Seal Woman. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992. After her husband is lost in a shipwreck, a Danish woman, Dagmar, comes to Australia, where she and her husband, Finn, had spent their honeymoon. Finn had sailed to the Antarctic five times aboard "Nella Dann" as an ANARE member.

Note: ANARE is the acronym of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (Law and Bechervaise 1957). "Nella Dan" ran aground off Macquarie Island on December 3, 1987, and sank on December 24, 1987 (Headland 1989).


Farrell, Cliff and Hal Colson. Jacn Swift and His Rocket Ship. Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934. Jack Swift builds a craft to go to the Antarctic in search of the lost civilization of Mu. Upon arrival, Jack discovers that the people of Mu (Polarians) are trying to topple the Earth. He enlists the aid of the giant penguin-men to defeat the Polarians.
Farren, Mick. Underland. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. A nosferatu (vampire) thinks that he is being sent to the Antarctic in search of Nazis living in the hollow earth. A human informs him that their group is going to the Arctic.
Fattarusso, Paul. Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004. Iple went to the Antarctic and found a brontosaurus frozen in the ice. The brontosaurus is sent to Argentina to be defrosted.
Ferguson, Henry. South for Adventure. London, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1947. Don Macey and Briney Hudson sail in Don's father's whaling and prospecting fleet. They meet a group of uranium pirates as they search for high-grade ore in the Ross Sea area.
Ferguson, Malcolm. "The Polar Vortex". Weird Tales: pp. 74-81, September 1946. The multimillionaire scientist and dabbler, Leopold Lemming, lures Daniel Imbriter, clerk and student, to his observatory at the South Pole. The young man is left there—alone.
Field, Mario. Astro Bubbles. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1928. Dr. Harland lectures his family about old astronomical theories. He then travels to Antarctica and discovers that the Earth is bowl shaped.
Fiennes, Ranulph. The Secrret Hunters: London: Little, Brown and Company, 2001. Derek Jacobs joins a group prospecting for gold in Antarctica. Note: The author states this may be a true story.
Follett, James. Ice. Briarcliff Manor: Stein & Day, 1978. Originally published: 1977. An 8,000 cubic mile portion of the Antarctic ice cap containing mountains breaks off from the continent and travels into the North Atlantic Ocean. Two members of the Rosenthal Antarctic Survey help prevent World War III.
Forbes, Stephen. False Cross. New York: Signet, 1989. Russians and Americans race to recover an American satellite that was shot down by Russians. Confrontations occur at the American Mensa Station located on the Ross Ice Shelf 3° south of Richard Byrd's Advance Base (80° 08'S, 163° 57'W) of 1934.
Foster, Alan Dean. The Thing. Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Bantam Books, 1982. Based on a short story: See John W. Campbell, Jr. A "thing," probably from an ancient space ship, attacks a Norwegian Antarctic base and then an American Antarctic base.
Foster, W. Bert. The Frozen Ship, or Clint Webb Among the Sealers. Chicago: M. A. Donahue & Co., 1913. The mystery ship "Firebrand" is caught in the southern currents south of Cape Horn and becomes locked in the ice.
Freemantle, Brian. Ice Age. Surrey, New York: Severn House, 2002. The onset of a plague of a premature aging illness is first noticed in Antarctica and Alaska. A group of scientists trace it to a thawed early Neolithic cave containing ancient bodies.

Gannett, Lewis. Magazine Beach. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1996 (a hardcover book).

Earnest Trefethen, a nuclear eco-terrorist, triggers a nuclear device six hundred miles from the South Pole in an old volcano deep in the western part of the Antarctic ice sheets.

Gansky, Alton. Beneath the Ice. Ulrichsville: Barbour Publishing, Inc., 2004.

Perry Sachs and his crew go to Antarctica to study Lake Vostok. Eric Enkian and his crew also arrive to search for the Ziggurat Tower of Babel.

Garnier, Charles T. Voyages Imaginaires, Songes, Visions et Roman Cabalistiques, "La relation d'un voyage du Pôle Arctique au Pôle Antarctique par le centre du monde, avec la description de ce périlleux passage, et des choses merveilleuses & étonnantes qu'on a découvertes sous le Pôle Antarctique". A Amsterdam, et se trouve a Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, M. DDC LXXXVIII. Originally published: Amsterdam: Lucas 1721. Courtesy Elena Glasberg. Also published as: Anonymous. Relation D'un Voyage Du Pole Arctique Au Pole Antarctique Par Le Centre Du Monde. Paris: Chez Noel Pissot, 1723.

A whaling ship is sucked into a whirlpool near Greenland and emerges at 71° 8"S. After encountering a variety of creatures, a volcano, a pyramid with fiery reflections, and a structure of white stones, the whalers set sail for the Cape of Good Hope. Note: The "Anonymous" separate of "Relation" is a curio. It is bound in brown leather. The title is embossed in gold and reads "Skirmish Drill for Mountain Troops, Adj. Gen's Office".
Gemmell, Nikki. Shiver. Sydney, New York, Toronto, London, Auckland, Johannesburg: Random House, 1997. A young woman journalist travels to the Antarctic.
Giangregorio, Anthony. Deadfreeze. Xlibris Corporation, 2007. The men at the Antarctic station become zombies and start eating normal men.
Gibbs, Wolcott. Bird Life at the Pole. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1931. Mr. Herbst, a newspaper publisher, sends Commander Robin, a Junior League girl, and ship "Lizzie Borden" to Antarctica.

Note: This story is a thinly disguised satire about William Randolph Hearst, Commander Richard E. Byrd, and Byrd's ship "Eleanor Bolling", named for his mother (Byrd 1935).


Gillmore, Inez Haynes. Angel Island. New York, Scarborough (Ontario): New American Library, post 1988. Originally published: 1914. Five men are shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by five winged women. The women are alone because the rest of the winged people have flown south to the Snowlands.
Grace, Tom. Twisted Web. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore: Pocket Books, 2003. Terrorists destroy LV Research Station, located 40 miles north of Vostok Station, after confiscating samples of life from the subglacial Lake Vostok.
Graham, David. Down to a Sunless Sea. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Earth is in a state of chaos and nuclear war. The planet's axis is tilting and Antarctica will become warm. Two planes filled with refugees fly toward McMurdo Station.
Greanias, Thomas. Raising Atlantis. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Pocket Star Books, 2005. Colonel Griffin Yeats and Conrad Yates (father and son) work together at Ice Base Orion to find Atlantis. In the process of discovering the city, Conrad triggers an 11.1 (Richter scale?) earthquake.
Griffith, George. "From Pole to Pole". The Windsor Magazine, An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, vol. XX, pp. 531-544, June to November 1904. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1904. Professor Karl Haffkin, his niece Brenda Prenceps and her husband Arthur Princeps start a journey from the South Pole to the North Pole via the center of the earth.
Griffith, George. Olga Romanoff or the Syren of the Skies. Westport: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1974. Originally published as a serial in Pearson's Weekly (London), December 30, 1893 to August 4, 1894. Using an earthquake fissure on the south side of Mt. Terror as an aircraft base, a descendant of the Tsars tries to take control of the world. She is opposed by African Aerians who maintain Kerguelen Island as a submarine and aircraft base.
Guile, Earl Ernest. Antarctic Collapse. New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., 2006. The United Nations decides that the ice cap on West Antarctica is melting rapidly.
Gurdon, Captain J.E. The Secret of the South. London, New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1950. A band of explorers discover that two ancient civilizations exist within the Antarctic icecap: the Polarians (white) and the Anthropians (neanderthal-like).
Hackman, Gene and Daniel Lenihan. Wake of the Perdido Star. New York: Newmarket Press, 1999. Jack O'Reilly leaves Cuba in 1805 aboard "Perdido Star". The ship sails south trying to round The Horn. The winds blow the ship south to within twenty miles of the Antarctic coast before the captain is able to sail westward round The Horn.

Note: The Antarctic land was officially discovered in 1820 by William Smith aboard "Williams". The naval officer aboard was Edward Bransfield who "was the first to chart a portion of the Antarctic mainland (Headland 1989)".


Haggard, H. Rider. Mary of Marion Isle. London: Hutchinson and Co., Limited, 1929. A young British lord is marooned on Marion Island. He discovers that the island is inhabited by a young girl, sole survivor of a shipwreck and mutiny.
Haggard, H. Rider. Mr. Meeson's Will. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, undated. Originally published: Illustrated London News, 1888. After R.M.S. "Kangaroo" collides with a whaler, a lifeboat containing publisher Mr. Meeson, author Augusta Smithers, five year old Dick Holmhurst and two sailors land on Kerguelen Island. Augusta and Dick are rescued by an American whaler after the men on the island die.
Hahn, Charles Curtz. The Wreck of the South Pole or the Great Dissembler. New York: Street & Smith, 1899. A shipwrecked mariner discovers a warm South Pole and inland sea inhabited by a telepathic civilization. A sudden precession of the poles causes a world-wide catastrophe.
Hall, Adam. Pawn In Jeopardy. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1954. Five Antarctic explorers face murder for the secret they discover on their expedition to the south.
Harbinson, W. A. Dream Maker. New York: Walker and Company, 1992. The Dream Maker, formed from plasmodes and radishes, arrives on Earth in Orionid and Eta Aquarid meteor showers resulting in the formation of the ozone holes. Only NASA scientist Tony Rydell can save the world from apparitions.
Harbinson, W. A. Millenium; Project Saucer: Book Four. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. After extensive research, Captain Lee Brandenburg concludes that UFOs and their inhabitants are constructed in Queen Maud Land.
Harrison, Craig. Days of Starlight. Auckland, London, Sydney, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. Dr. Ben Armstrong, a scientist from New Zealand, is invited to a remote American base in Antarctica to perform laser experiments on a strange two-metre long pale yellow silicon crystalline hexagonal object with an internal tetrahedral structure. He discovers that it produces holographic images when struck by the laser beam.
Harrison, Payne. Thunder of Erebus. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991. A Soviet-American geological expedition discovers the mineral carnallite, containing rubidium-96, under the ice at Windless Bight. An armed conflict occurs for control of the mine.
Hauser, Heinrich. Last Port of Call. New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. A married man leaves his family in Germany, boards one of the last sailing ships in Copenhagen, and sails for Australia via the Southern Ocean.

Hendry, Frances Mary. Atlantis. Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Atlantis is a series of caverns on the edge of Mt. Erebus. While Mungith is on trial for adulthood, he finds a wounded giant from the "outside".

Hendry, Frances Mary. Atlantis in Peril. Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1999. First published in 1998.

The King's daughter tries to kill Chooker, so she goes outside to find a Giant. Peter Winston follows Chooker back inside and wrestles the King's daughter.

Henrick, Richard P. Ice Wolf. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1994.

A group of Nazis try to retrieve the Holy Grail from an Antarctic cave.
Herbert, James. Portent. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Inc., 1993. Originally published: Sevenoaks: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992. The world is experiencing many catastrophes accompanied by strange lights. The mammals and birds of the Antarctic have accumulated large doses of toxins and springs appear in the Dry Valleys. The penguins of Macquarie Island stampeded leaving 7,000 dead.
Herbert, Marie. Winter of the White Seal. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. A young 19th century whaler is marooned on Livingston Island and finds companionship with a baby white seal.
Hodgson, Barbara. Hippolyte's Island. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001. Hippolyte Webb sails to the Aorora Islands. When he returns to his home in Canada, he contacts Rumor Press of New York about publishing his book.
Holmes, Clara H. "Nordhung Nordjansen". Floating Fancies Among the Weird and Occult, pp. 7-28. London, New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898. Captain Nordjansen salied north from Norway, A wind sweeps him into an abyss and he floats to a strange land. A small boat is swept upon a rocky point in the southern sea. They find a gaunt white-haired old man from Norway.
Hooper, Meredith. The Pole Seekers. London: Hodders Children's Books, 2000. A group of black rats join a ship heading for Antarctica. When the ship moors in the south, they start on an expedition to the Pole. They reach a "farthest south" for black rats.
Hotchkiss, Robert R. Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice (first book of the Shalrodan Saga). San Jose, New York, Lincoln, Shaghai: Writers Club Press, 2001. Gary Krahmer reports for a geological expedition in the Queen Maud Range. He finds a hole in the ice which he enlarges. He then descends into the hole and finds himself in a civilization that is several thousand years old.
Howells, W. D. Through The Eye of the Needle. From The Altrurian Romances. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press, 1968. Originally published: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Part I (27 chapters) was originally published in Cosmopolitan Magazine November 1892 to October 1893 as the last six letters of Letters of an Altrurian Traveler. The Altrurians have created a temperate climate in their south polar region by cutting off the southeastern peninsula. Aristides Homos feels that the same effect could be produced in the United States by cutting off the western shore of Alaska.
Innes, Hammond. Isvik. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. An international group of men and women man the yacht "Isvik" on a voyage to the Weddell Sea in search of the early nineteenth century sailing ship "Andros". The icebound wooden ship is implicated in the disappearance of a group of men from Argentina.
Innes, Hammond. The Survivors (The White South, Calling the Southern Cross). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. The whaling factory ship "Southern Cross" is beset by ice and a ruthless killer in the Weddell Sea. Episodes are patterned after Shackleton's "Endurance" expedition.

Note: "Southern Cross" was the name of Carstens Borchgrevink's ship used in his expedition of 1898-1900 (Cameron 1974).


Innes, Hammond. Target Antarctica. London, Sydney, Auckland: Pan Books, 1993. A sequel to Isvik. Can a stranded Hercules C-130 aircraft be flown off a calved Antarctic iceberg? Ex-RAF pilot Edwin Cruise is hired by Iain Ward to find out.
Irwin, Robert. The Limits of Vision. Sawtry: Dedalus Ltd., 1993. Originally published: 1986. Marcia fantasizes while doing her housework. The bed becomes the domain of the Queen of the Snows and the Antarctic.
Jackson, Deborah. Ice Tomb. Woodbridge: The Invisible College Press, L.L.C., 2004. Erica Daniels goes to Antarctica and finds a pyramid under the ice. David Marsh goes to the moon and finds a pyramid under the surface. Who built them and why?
Jenkins, Geoffrey. The Disappearing Island (A Grue of Ice). New York: The Viking Press, 1962. The former commander of the British Naval forces based on Deception Island is taken aboard the factory ship "Antarctica". He is the key to unravelling wartime mysteries involving Bouvet and Thompson Islands.

Note: "Antarctic" has been the name of expedition ships of: Leonard Kristensen (1894-1895), Otto Nordenskjold (1901-1903), and E. O. Borchgrevink (1930-1931) (Roberts 1958). See Index of Place Names (Appendix 5) for comments about Thompson Island. "Grue" is a Scottish word which the author defines on page 123 as "the thrill of naked fear". It means a creeping of the flesh and a pellicle of ice (Chambers 1986).


Johns, Captain W. E. Biggles Breaks The Silence. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1949. Sergeant Bigglesworth, head of the Air Section, Criminal Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, and companions race against time and the master of "Sveldt" to salvage the gold shipment of the schooner "Starry Crown" in Graham Land.
Johnson, Seddon. South Pole Sabotage. Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1989. A "Choose Your Adventure" book. A boy travels to the Antarctic aboard his uncle's ocean research vessel "Pole Star." I found 21 different adventures in this 113-page book. How many can you find.
Jonnes, Christopher Bonn. Big Ice. Baltimore, Publish-America Book Publishers, 2003. The shy samaritan works at the National Ice Center on a theory of Antarctic ice collapse. Murder leads to an Edgar Cayce theory.
Joseph, Robert. The Aquarius Transfer. New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1982. A drought has devastated California. An iceberg is towed to Point Mugu by a converted supertanker.
Judd, Alfred. The Secret of the Snows. London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1925. Captain Drummon and his two sons lead an expedition up the Beardmore Glacier. Their object is to find veins of ore and coal for millionaire Matthew Millington.
Kavaler, Lucy. Heroes & Lovers. New York: Dutton, 1995. Byron Tremaine's great-granddaughter Beatrix is searching for new information about him for Steve Avery's weekly television exposé show. She discovers Viola Lambert who was Byron's secret love and the leader of a female expedition to Antarctica in 1915.
Kazantzakis, Nikos. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. Translated into English verses by Kimon Friar. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. Originally published: Athens, 1938. The Antarctic voyage occurs in Book XXII. Odysseus sails south in a coffin-shaped boat. He "smashes the reed gently, mutely on hard crystal ice" and escapes "death by swimming in the open sea". After many hours, he finds a crag to climb and is eventually rescued by a people living in a Northwest-Coast - and - Arctic type community.
Keeping, Tempest. The Quest of the "Fearless". London: Eldon Press Limited, 1936. Professor Timothy Cassidy and his ward Mickey board the small whaler "Fearless" bound for the Antarctic where the Professor expects to find the secret of the origin of life in penguin embryos. The ship sinks off one of the Macquarie islands and all hands are marooned. A great amount of ambergris is found.
Kelly, Vivien. take one young man. London: Arrow Books, 2000. Inspired by his Grandad's research in Antarctica, Sam enlists in a research expedition to the same area.
Kelsey, Franklyn. The Island in the Mist. London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1937. James Armitage and his two sons find high adventure on the Island in the Mist.
Keneally, Thomas. The Survivor. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1970. The survivor of an Antarctic expedition returns after a grave containing the remains of the man he abandoned 40 years before is found.
Keneally, Thomas. Victim of the Aurora. London, Sydney: Collins, 1977. The news media member of the New British South Polar Expedition is murdered.
Kilian, Crawford. Icequake. London: Futura Publications Limited, 1979. Solar flares in 1985 cause loss of Earth's magnetic field. The Antarctic icecap surges and scientists try to escape the breakup of the ice.
Kingston, William H. G. At the South Pole. London: Cassell Petter & Galph, 1877. A boy runs away from his home in Cornwall and goes to sea in a whaler. He survives an Antarctic shipwreck, polar bears, walrus, wolves, and an erupting volcano.
Kingston, William H. G. The South Sea Whaler: A Story of the Loss of the "Champion" and the Adventures of Her Crew. London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875. Captain Tredeagle, his children, and his mutinous crew are blown south of Cape Horn during a storm, and find themselves among gigantic icebergs.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Books. New York: New American Library, Inc., 1981. Originally published: New York: The Century Co., 1893. Kotick, the white seal, visits Kerguelen Island, the Georgia Islands, the Orkneys, Emerald Island, Bouvet Island, and the Prozets in his search for an island unknown to man.
Kitto, Crispin. The Antarctic Cookbook. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. An East Hollywood chef, haunted by fantasies of Shackleton, Amundsen, Scott and Palmer obtains permission to build a summer home on Ross Island between Scott's and Shackleton's huts.
Kotter, John and Holger Rathgeber. Our Iceberg is Melting. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. A group of penguins discover that their iceberg is melting and learn how to change their lives.
Kuprin, Alexander. "A Toast". Pre-Revolutionary Russian Science Fiction: An Anthology. Translated by Leland Fetzer. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1982, pp. 182-184. Originally published in 1906. The 200th year of the Worldwide Anarchist Union (A.D. 2906) is greeted with festivities at the North and South Poles, the main stations of the Electromagnetic Associates. The earth's magnetic power is the only available fuel.
Kurkov, Andrey. Death and the Penguin. Translated from the Russian by George Bird. London: The Harvill Press, 2001. First published: Kiev, Alterpress, 1996. Victor hopes to send his penguin Micha back to the Antarctic.
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part Two: Perestroika. New York: Theater Communications Group, Inc., 1994. Harper chews down a pine tree to put in her imaginary Antarctica. The Angel Antarctica attends the Council of the Continental Principalities in Heaven.
Langley, Bob. Falklands Gambit. New York: Walker and Company, Oz Edition, 1985. General Hugh Pinilla is sent as a prisoner to Argentina's Camp Digepol, 12 miles inland between the Bellingshausen and Weddell Seas. An American and a British yachtsman try to rescue him before the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands.
Langley, Bob. Precipice. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1991. The Russian spacecraft "Suchko" is shot down by NORAD and lands in the Antarctic, probably in the Weddell Sea area. The race is on to unravel the mystery surrounding "Suchko."
Langley, J.B. The Stone Sky. Bloomington: Author House, 2004. William and Irene become trapped in the Antarctic and are rescued by the people of Tiemora who live in caves under Mt. Erbus.

Note: Erbus is propbably Erebus.


Lawson, Will. The Lady of the Heather. Sydney, London: Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1945. The granddaughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie, suspected of treachery to the Jacobite cause, is exiled to Campbell Island.
Lawton, Captain Wilbur. The Boy Aviator's Polar Dash. New York: 1910. Frank and Harry Chester go south on the United States South Polar Expedition ship "Southern Cross". In spite of opposition by Japanese Manchurian troops, they help locate a Viking ship frozen in the Barrier ice and creatures living in a volcanic lake.

Note: See Innes, Hammond.


Leahy, John Martin. "In Amundsen's Tent". The Macabre Reader. Edited by Donald A. Wollheim. New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1959. Originally published ca. 1930. Three explorers find a living horror in Amundsen's South Pole tent.
Leahy, John Martin. "The Living Death". New York: Science and Invention: in pictures, formerly Electrical Experimenter, Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc., October 1924 - June 1925. Captain Livingston returns from a warm South Pole with stories of palm trees and a lovely woman frozen in the ice. His friends Frontenac and Bond lead an expedition to bring the frozenwomen to Seattle.
LeGuin, Ursula K. "Sur". The New Yorker: pp. 38-46, February 1, 1982. Using "Yelcho" as an expedition ship, a group of South American women travel to the South Pole in 1909-10.

Note: The Chilean relief ship "Yelcho" successfully rescued the crew of Shackleton's ship "Endurance" who were stranded on Elephant Island in August 1916 (Cameron 1974).


Leinster, Murray. The Monster From Earth's End. London, New York: White Lion Publisher, 1973. Orignally published 1959. Nineteen people lived and worked in the station on Gow Island. A plane flew in from an Antarctic hot zone with a load of native Antarctic trees which were promptly planted. A beast in the night made itself known to the personnel on the island.
L'Engle, Madeleine. Troubling A Star. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. Vicky Austin, a New England teenager, is stranded on an iceberg in the Antarctic Ocean during a cruise aboard the tourist ship "Argosy". She realizes too late that she is a pawn in an international power scheme involving the South American country Vespugia.
Lerangis, Peter, a series Antarctica: Journey to the Pole. New York, Toronto, London, Auckland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong: Scholastic Inc., 2000.

Antarctica: Escape from Disaster. New York, Toronto, London, Auckland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong: Scholastic Inc., 2000.

Jack Winslow is the leader of an expedition to the Antarctic. The ship "Mystery" leaves New York in 1909 in an attempt to reach the South Pole. The group avoids several near disasters, but never reaches the Pole.
Livingston, S. N. Antarctic Fury. New York: Carlton Press, Inc., 1991. The world's largest supply of oil is found near McMurdo Sound. Two Americans and one New Zealander are skiing when the Russians attack McMurdo Station. They hide at the base of Mount Discovery in the area of the Phantom Organas.

Note: The description of the Phantom Organas is the same for fata morgana mirages. Fata Morgana is Italian for Morgan Le Fay, half-sister of King Arthur. The name has been used for centuries for the mirages over the Strait of Messina (Greenler 1980).
London, Jack. "Make Westing". Short Stories of the Sea. Edited by George C. Solley, Eric Steinbaugh, David O. Tomlinson. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. Originally published in When God Laughs. New York: MacMillan Company, January, 1911. Captain Dan Cullin and "Mary Rogers" try for seven weeks to round the Horn. The ship even tries at 64° S but to no avail. A seaman falls overboard but the captain sails on.
Long, Amelia Reynolds. "Bride of the Antarctic". First published: Strange Stories Magazine, 1939. Coutesey of Valmar Kurol. Three men spend the Antarctic winter in Victoria Land at the site of the ill-fated Howell Expeditions. They learn that the site is haunted.
Long, Jeff. The Descent, New York: Crown Publishers, 1999. Senator January, Father Thomas, and the commanding officers of the sub-Pacific bases gather in Little America to identify the traitor in the Helios Research Expedition.
Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1964. This story was originally written in 1931 but was rejected by Weird Tales. It was rewritten and published in Astounding Science Fiction, February to April 1936. Members of the Miskatonic University Expedition discover a mountain range at 76° 15'S, 113° 10'E. A Palaeogean Megalopolis, more than two million years old and filled with unspeakable horrors, lies at an altitude of 23,570 feet.

Note: See Beale, Charles Willing.


Lovecraft, H. P. The Shadow Out of Time. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1968. Originally published: Astounding Science Fiction, page 110 et seq., June 1936. The mind of Professor Peaslee of Miskatonic University is in contact with many of the intelligent races that have or will inhabit Earth, including the star-headed old ones of the Antarctic.
Lovejoy, William H. White Night. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 1994. The front for South American Determination bombs several Antarctican stations.
Lucas, Jeremy. The Longest Flight. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. The arctic tern, Sea-swallow, flies from his home in Scotland to the Antarctic continent and home again.
Lupoff, Richard A. Circumpolar! New York: Timescope Books, 1984. Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Howard Hughes are copilots in a circumpolar air race. They enter the hollow Earth through the southern Symmes' Hole and discover Muiaia.
Mackie, John. The Great Antarctic. London: Jarrold & Sons, undated. A British gentleman explorer returns to the Antarctic in search of two companions who are missing after a balloon crash on Mt. Erebus.
Marías, Javier. Voyage Along the Horizon. San Francisco: Believer Books, 1972. Translated by Kristina Cordera. Three people meet to hear one of them read a novel about a group of authors sailing to Antarctica. After several deaths, the trip ends at Tangier.
Marriott Watson, H. B. Marahuna: A Romance. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1888. Percy Grayhurst, Esq., a biologist, sails to the Antarctic aboard H.M.S. "Hereward". They sail south of 81°50'S 143°W, to a volcano where a waving mass of flames seems to rise out of the water. Percy rescues a woman on a skiff.
Marshall, Edison. Dian of the Lost Land. New York: H. C. Kinsey & Company, Inc., 1935. Scientists find tribes of Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals living in a warm Antarctica. The continent had been connected to South America and Africa at the end of the Pleistocene geologic epoch.
Marshall, James. My Boy John Went to Sea. Great Neck: Morrow, 1967. A boy ships out on his father's whalecatcher. The catcher crew tries to tow a blue whale during a fierce storm.
Marshall, James Vance. White-Out. New York: Soho Press, Inc., 2000. First published: London: Souvenir Press Ltd., 1999. Lt. James Lockwood is the sole survivor of a British Naval Base Camp on the Antarctic Peninsula near Anvers Island. In later life he becomes a well-respected meteorologist.
Mason, A. E. W. The Turnstile. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. A British naval captain uses the leadership of an Antarctic expedition as a stepping-stone to a seat in Parliament.
Mastin, John. The Immortal Light. London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907. Four explorers travel to Victoria Land aboard the ship "Champion", built of self-heating steel. They plan to travel to the South Pole along the 170th meridian of W. longitude. They cross the barrier by ether waves and find a wooded land with lilies-of-the-valley.
Mastorakis, Nico and Barnaby Conrad. Fire Below Zero. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. An industrialist, born of eight parents, discovers the fatal flaw in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Project Nova. He arrives at the laboratory base in Enderby Land in time to prevent the destruction of Earth.
Mastroianni, Joe. "Endurance: Is geography the only DX dimension?". QST, pp. 51-54, February 1993. Cullin is operating his ham radio in California on January 7, 1990. During interference from a solar storm, he contacts Captain Orde-Lees on Elephant Island in 1916.
Maverick, Liz. Adventures of an Ice Princess. New York: New American Library, 2004. Clarissa, Kate, and Delilah all sign on the Antarctic Program. They end up finding themselves.

Mawson, Douglas. "Bathybia". Aurora Australis: "published at the winter quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909, during the winter months of April, May, June, July, 1980. ..." (Chipman 1993).

A group exploring Victoria Land discovers a lush jungle within a huge volcano of unprecedented proportions.
Maxwell, W. B. Spinster of This Parish. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922. A Victorian romance blossoms between a sheltered, young woman of London and an older British Antarctic explorer.
Mayer, Bob. eternity base. Novato: Lyford Books, 1996. A government worker finds evidence of a secret base in Antarctica and tells her sister who works for Satellite News Network. SNN then sends a news team to locate the base.
McCarry, Charles. The Better Angels. New York: Fawcett Press, 1982. Originally published: 1979. President Lockwood of the United States orders the assassination of Ibn Awad of Hagreb. As an aside, the children of the President's right-hand man tour the Antarctic aboard their stepfather's yacht.

Note: The first known private yacht to sail to the Antarctic regions was "Mischief" owned and operated by Harold William Tilman. He sailed to South Georgia Island and the South Shetland Islands during the 1966-67 season (Headland 1989).


McCaughrean, Geraldine. The White Darkness. London: Oxford University Press, 2005. Symone and her "Uncle" Victor go to Antarctica to find "Symmes Hole". Her imaginary companion is Titus Oates of the Robert F. Scott Expedition.

Note: For information about Symmes Hole, see the Introduction to Tekili-li.


McClenaghan, Jack. The Ice Admiral. London: W. H. Allen, 1969. An American Admiral plans a mid-winter flight to McMurdo station to transport a sick man to New Zealand.
McDonald, Jo. Gabriel. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964. Gabriel fell into a crevasse in Adélie Land. He stays alive by reviewing incidents of his life.

Note: The author states that the "story is based on the third French Antarctic Expedition to Adélie Land led by Marion Marret: 1952-1953". According to Headland (1989) the expedition took place during the years 1951-1952.


McIver, G. Neuroomia, a New Continent. London, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane: George Robertson & Company, 1894. Captain Periwinkle sails the ship "Penguin" south from Tasmania. He reaches the continent of Neuroomia and, on foot, he eventually reaches the South Pole by the Great Fountain of many colors.
McLaughlin, W. R. D. Antarctic Raider. London: Harrap, 1960. A German warship sails to the Antarctic to seize Norwegian and British factory ships.
McLaughlin, W. R. D. So Thin Is the Line. London, Toronto, Wellington, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1963. The Nazis capture two Norwegian whale-ships. They then face the problem of sailing the two ships from the Antarctic to Germany while evading the British Navy.
Merritt, Abraham. The Face In The Abyss. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1953. Originally published: 1931. The most ancient people leave the warm Antarctica when the Earth rocks and swings. They sail north and settle in the Andean wilderness at Yu-Atlanchi.
Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Places. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Inc., 1999. Originally published in 1996. Seven year old Jakob is rescued by Athos, a scientist. Athos is fascinated by Antarctica. He meets Frank Debenham in Greece and later takes Jakob to Canada where he works for Griffith Taylor.
Miller, Benjamin E. Deep Current. New York: New American Library, 2004. A large Antarctic iceberg heads for Hawaii. A group of U.S. Marines and civilians lands on the berg and battle large "invisible cephalopoid" monsters.
Miller, Benjamin E. Zero Hour. New York: Onyx, 2003. A deep volcano erupts under an Antarctic glacier. Colonel Tom Reed directs the use of nuclear explosions to head off a hypercane (a hyper hurricane).
Mooney, Ted. Easy Travel to Other Planets. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. The lives of several people and a dolphin are changed by the threat of war in Antarctica.
Moore, Marshall. Tantalus Zero. Libertine, 2004 (no city mentioned). A surgeon is sent to work in a top secret U.S. mining station in central Antarctica. He is accused of killing a patient and attacking a couple of workers.
Moran, Richard. Cold Sea Rising. New York: Arbor House, 1986. A volcanic plume develops under the Ross Ice Shelf severing it from the continent. The shelf is then set adrift in a northerly direction.
Moran, Richard. Earth Winter. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1995. Mention is made of the Spreckles engine: a chemical-mechanical motor, powered by an exchange of heat, to move icebergs in the Antarctic.
Morris, M. E. The Icemen. Novato: Presidio Press, 1988. A Nazi remnant under Martin Bormann attempts to establish a colony at an Argentine Antarctic station.
Nathanson, I. R. "The Antarctic Transformation". Amazing Stories: pp. 720-729, November 1931. The largest explosion on Earth occurs when Benjamin Smith and his wealthy sponsor blow up an Antarctic geyser field five miles long and hundreds of feet wide. The object is to create a habitable portion of Antarctica by melting portions of the ice cap.
Neider, Charles. The Grotto Berg. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001. Originally published 1997. Personality conflicts aboard a Coast Guard cutter lead to death.
Neider, Charles. Overflight. Far Hills: New Horizon Press, 1986. A professor of history survives a DC-10 crash and a helicopter crash on Mt. Erebus.

Note: See Davis, John Gordon's Seize the Wind.


Netterville, Luke. The Queen of the World or Under the Tyranny. London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1900. Gerlad de Lacy of Ireland is projected to December 14, 2174. Alfred, King of England, escapes the Tyranny and takes his people to a gigantic cave under the snows of the Antarctic.
"Noname". "The Abandoned Country; or, Frank Reade Jr. Exploring a New Continent". Adventure No. 139. New York: Frank Tousey, August 7, 1896; Frank Reade Library. Frank Reade and companions sail south of the Horn aboard "The Black Pearl". They reach the Antarctic continent and explore it traveling on the Electric Scorcher. They find an abandoned city.
"Noname". "The Chase of a Comet; or, Frank Reade Jr.'s Most Wonderful Aerial Trip With His New Air-Ship the 'Flash'." Adventure No. 108. New York: Frank Tousey, May 31, 1895; Frank Reade Library. Professor Alexis Mendon and his son Jack track Hopkin's Comet by going to the South Pole by balloon from Enderby Land. Frank Reade flies his air-ship "Flash" to find them.
"Noname". "The Electric Island; or, Frank Reade Jr.'s Search For the Greatest Wonder on Earth with His Air-ship, the 'Flight'." Adventure No. 114. New York: Frank Tousey, August 23, 1895; Frank Reade Library. Frank Reade and companions sail the air-ship "Flight" south, southwest of Kerguelen Island in search of an electric island. They find the island and its diamonds. The island then sinks.
"Noname". "From Pole to Pole; or, Frank Reade Jr.'s Strange Submarine Voyage". Adventure No. 53. New York: Frank Tousey, September 23, 1893; Frank Reade Library. After Frank Reade and his companions rescue the log of the cruiser "Delaware" wrecked off the Coast of Greenland, they sail the submarine "The Sea Tiger" south towards Antarctica. A tidal wave sweeps them under the ice to the South Pole. They surface and meet the marooned American crew of the steamer "Texas" who have white hair and green skin.
"Noname". "From Zone to Zone; or, The Wonderful Trip of Frank Reade Jr. With His Latest Air-ship". Adventure No. 69. New York: Frank Tousey, January 13,1894; Frank Reade Library. Neither Pole has ever been reached. Frank Reade, aboard his air-ship "The Dart" reaches the South Pole and discovers a warm, fertile inhabited area. He then discovers that the North Pole is an icy area.
"Noname". "Lost in a Comet's Tail; or Frank Reade Jr.'s Strange Adventure With His New Air-ship". Adventure No. 122. New York: Frank Tousey, December (?) 13, 1895; Frank Reade Library. The comet of Verdi is due to appear below the Southern Cross constellation. Frank Reade and his crew fly the air-ship "The Cloud Cutter" towards the south. They rescue two men and a girl from a ship sinking near the waters of the Southern Ocean. They reach Antarctica, a land of fir trees, foxes and giant elks. While there, the tail of the comet sweeps the air-ship and its occupants out into space.
"Noname". "The Lost Navigators; or, Frank Reade Jr.'s Mid-Air Search With His New Air-ship, the 'Sky-Flyer'." Adventure No. 143. New York: Frank Tousey, October 2, 1896; Frank Reade Library. Dr. Julius Jensen leaves Enderby Land by balloon, heads for the South Pole and vanishes. Frank Reade and the crew of the "Sky Flyer" fly south to rescue Dr. Jensen. They rescue the balloon crew who are marooned in a verdant, inhabited South Polar region.
"Noname". "The Silver Sea; or, Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Cruise in Unknown Waters". Adventure No. 178. New York: Frank Tousey, February 4, 1898; Frank Read Library. A cruise ship sailor, Jerry Bunce, tells a tale of sailing the Silver Sea, an unknown area of the Antarctic. Frank Reade is intrigued and hires Jerry Bunce aboard his submarine "Eel". They cross the Antarctic Circle and head for Enderby Land. They find the Silver Sea area inhabited by monstrous creatures and humans.

Note: The Frank Reade stories are written by Harry Enton, Luis P. Senarens, Francis W. Doughty and an unidentified author. (Bleiler 1990).


O'Brian, Patrick. Desolation Island. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First published: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1978. H.M.S. "Leopard" stops at Desolation Island for repairs following harrowing experiences while sailing to Australia during the early years of the nineteenth century.
O'Brian, Patrick. The Far Side of the World. Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1985. Originally published: Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1984. A British naval captain sails far to the south in his efforts to round the Horn.
O'Brian, Patrick. The Wine-Dark Sea. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Captain Aubrey sails "Surprise" into extremely cold Antarctic waters.
Orwell, George. 1984. Orlando: Plume, 1983. Originally published 1949. The Ministry of Peace has laboratories on lost islands of the Antarctic. Teams of workers are at work on a variety of destructive projects suited for war at the Pole.
Owen, Maurice. The White Mantle. London: Robert Hale Limited. New Zealand: Whitecombe & Tombs Ltd., 1967. A steady meteor shower cools Earth and large ice sheets advance from both poles. Russell Caxton and Yin-Kwan Lau plan the future of mankind.
Paine, Albert Bigelow. The Great White Way. New York: J. F. Taylor & Company, 1901. The central heat of the Earth is brought to the surface by oblation of the poles. A civilization, similar to the Incas, lives in a warm central Antarctica.

Note: The story is based on Borchgrevink's report of a warm current below 71° S flowing from the direction of the South Pole. The earth's oblateness (fractional degree of flattening) is 1/298.257223563 (Westfall personal communication 1999).


Paltock, Robert. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. New York, London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1974. Reprint of the original edition: London, 3 December 1750, dated 1751. A British seaman is shipwrecked on a large loadstone rock in the southern regions. He boards a small boat, is sucked under the rock, and discovers a land inhabited by flying humans.
Parlier, Robert. Tropical Antarctica: A Prophecy?. Baltimore: Publish America, 2006. It is the story of the Cook family from Rupert to Abel. Abel finally combats Mah Tai.
Parrish, Randall. The Last Voyage of the Donna Isabel, A Romance of the Sea. Chicago: McClurg, 1908. John Stephens is so anxious to escape from Valparaiso that he inadvertently pirates "Sea Queen" with the owner, Lady Darlington, aboard. The First Mate and crew take charge of the ship and sail to 66° 17'S, 110° 31'W to locate the treasure ship "Donna Isabel" built in 1730.

Note: Doña Isabel (Barreto de Mendaña de Castro) explored the South Seas in 1595. (Michener, James A. and A. Grove Day, 1957)


Pavlou, Stel. Decipher. New York: St. Martin's paperbacks, 2001. A group explores the inner parts of the ice cap of Antarctica and discovers part of the great city of Atlantis.
Payne, G. Warren. Three Boys In Antarctica: A Story For Boys. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1912. Two nephews and a guest sail on Jack Hunter's yacht "Bronzewing". A fierce storm deposits the three boys on an ice cliff and the yacht is lost at sea. After many adventures, the boys are rescued by the Japanese whaler "Tse-shima".
Pearson, T. R. Polar. New York, London, Ringwood, Toronto, Auckland: Viking, 2002. Clayton becomes stuporous and asks to be called Titus. He paints a map of Antarctica on his chimney as he becomes a seer.
Perrot D'Ablancourt, N. (Nicolas). Lucien De La Traduction. Amsterdam: Chez Jean de Ravestein, (I) I) c LXIV, 1664. The animals of the Antipodes revolted against the sauvages. Lucren watched the battle from a tree and later arranged a peace treaty between the combatants.

Note: The Antipodes adventure is in the supplement of the second part of the book. Some reference bibliographers list the adventure a Supplement de L'Histoire Veritable de Luciein. For clarification of the Roman numerals, see the Lewis entry in the "Reference Bibliography".


Piñol, Albert Sánchez. Cold Skin. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Translated by Cheryl Morgan. Originally published: La Pell Freda by Ediciones La Campana, Barcelona, Spain, 2002. A young man is assigned to a lighthouse on a remote sub-Antarctic island near Bouvet Island. Mr. Gruner lives on the island and fights the carnivorous reptilians that come out of the sea at night. Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: A. Knopf, 1946. Originally published: Southern Literary Messenger, in part, vol. 3, January-February, 1837, pp. 13-16, 109-116. The survivors of a sailing ship mutiny drift southward beyond Bennett's Island (82° 50'S, 42° 20'W). They discover that the warm polar islands are inhabited by a black people.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "Ms. Found in a Bottle". The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: A. Knopf, 1946. Originally published: Baltimore Saturday Visitor, vol. 3, October 19, 1833. A man finds himself trapped on a strange ship heading for the great whirlpool at the South Pole.
Pohl, Frederick & C. M. Kornbluth. The Space Merchants. Melbourne, London, Toronto: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1955. Mitchell Courtenay, head of Venus Exploration for Fowler Schocken Associates, lands at Little America, Antarctica, in search of Matt Runstead.
Pollock, Herbert W. None Shall Forget. Haverford: Infinity Publishing.com, 2001. Chief Bill Parker and his group help erect a nuclear power plant in Antarctica.
Pope, Gustavus W., M.D. Journey to Mars. Westport: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1984. Reprint of the 1894 edition published by G. W. Dillingham, New York, vol. 1 of Romances of the Planets. Lt. Frederick Hamilton, U.S.N., and John, Prince of New Zealand, discover the Antarctic polar sea and are marooned at 82° 45'S, 150° W. They are rescued by Martian colonials who then fly them to Mars.
Poyer, D. C. White Continent. New York: Jove Publications, Inc., 1980. Using arms supplied by an oil cartel, a group of colonists assumes control of the Antarctic continent.
Preisler, Jerome, Tom Clancy's Power Plays: Cold War. Created by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg. New York: Berkeley Books, 2001. International intrigue erupts at Cold Corner Research Base in the Antarctic.

Note: See Index of Place Names.


Presland, John. Albatross. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. An injured British army major is the sole survivor of the crash of the airship "Antarctica" when he allows himself to be the first man airlifted from the Antarctic crash site. His life is ruined when the Air Ministry Court of Enquiry finds him guilty of deserting his men.

Note: See Jenkins, Geoffrey.


Preston, Douglas and Lincoln Child. The Ice Limit. New York: Warner Books, Inc., 2000. Palmer Lloyd outfits the tanker "Rolvaag" to recover a "meteorite" on an island near Cape Horn. After a struggle, the ship sinks at 61° 32'14"S, 59° 30'10"W near King George Island.
Prospero, Peter. "The Atlantis". American Museum of Science, Literature and the Arts: vol. 1, pp. 42-65, 222-255, 311-341, 419-437, 1838. (The quoted pages are from a reference. Not all of them have been located.) Alonzo Pinzon in "Astrea" travels south of 65° S and discovers Atlantis which is inhabited by all the late and great men and women of history.
Pynchon, Thomas. V. Philadelphia, New York: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1963. Originally published in 1961. Godolphin and Rafael sit in Scheissvogel's Biergarten und Rathskeller in Italy and talk. Godolphin tells about his lone journey to the South Pole in winter.
Rafcam, Nal. The Troglodytes. London: Brown Watson Limited, no date, 1950s? An American military expedition is sent to the Antarctic to study the explosion of a lithium bomb. After the detonation, the submarine "Silent Intruder" rises to the top of a lake. The lush area is inhabited by an unknown group of tiny people.

Note: The half-life of the known radionuclides of lithium is less than one second.


Ramsey, Milton W. The Austral Globe. Minneapolis: Milton W. Ramsey, 1892. Captain Armstrong and friends sail south of Graham's Land and discover Austral Land, a globe attached to the south part of the Earth.

Note: See (Erskine, Thomas). Armata; A fragment.


Randolph, Jacqueline G. Deception's Fury. Palo Alton: Fultus Books, 2005. Rhys and Skye are sent to South America and Antarctica on a special U.S. Drug Enforcement Admninistration, Department of Justice, case.
Reade, Frank Jr.: see "Noname".


Reeves-Stevens, Judith & Garfield. Icefire. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Pocket Books, 1998.

Nuclear detonations near McMurdo Station produce a rogue wave that covers the Pacific Ocean and results in icefire.
Reilly, Matthew. Ice Station. Macmillan: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, 1998. Wilkes Ice Station, located at 66.5° S, 115° 20'20"E is the scene of a hi-tech battle involving the British, French, Americans, killer whales and elephant seals. Lt. Shane Schofield locates Little American IV inside an offshore iceberg.
Reiss, Bob. Purgatory Road. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, and Singapore: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Minerals, murder, spies, and psychosis are the daily fare at a small American Antarctic base.
Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme. La Decouverte Australe. Paris: France Adel, 1977. Originally published as: La Decouverte Australe Par un Homme-volant, ou le Dedale Francais. Nouvelle tres-philosophique: suivie de la lettre d'un singe. Publisher's note translated by Gabriel Campagnet: "This edition contains the unabridged text of the 1781 Leipzig original, save for the omission of 20 or so pages and of notes concerning other works by the same author". Victorin makes a set of wings to carry his beloved Christine to Inaccessible Mountain. From this French Eden, they fly to the Antipodes of France, an archipelago named Megapatagonia located between Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica, where they found a utopia.
Robeson, Kenneth. The South Pole Terror (Doc Savage series). New York: Bantam Books, 1974. Originally published: 1936. Using a dirigible, Doc Savage and his group follow an explorer and his mob to an Antarctic valley due south of Buenos Aires. The secret of the valley is being exploited by penetration of the entire spectrum of cosmic rays which are expedited by the use of electromagnetic propulsions from the explorer's equipment.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Antarctica. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1998. A group of Marxist ecoteurs blow up business stations. The survivors are rescued by Ferals living quietly in the Antarctic.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1993. The training and selection of the finalists for the Mars Colony takes place in the Dry Valleys of Antarctic.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Martians. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1999. Michel, one of four psychologists in Wright Valley, Antarctica, is involved with training 158 people for duty in Mars. An outside panel evaluates the project.

Rockwood, Roy. Under the Ocean to the South Pole or The Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder. (The Great Marvel series). New York: Cupples & Leon Co., 1907.

Sailing in "Porpoise", an 80 foot submarine, an inventor and six companions go from Freeport, New York, to the boiling hot ocean at the South Pole. Along the way, they combat a variety of giant marine monsters and find a submarine land with trees, bushes and grass. A stop is made at Terra del Fuego, a land of hostile natives, large coconut crabs and turtles.

Note: "Porpoise" was one of the ships that accompanied Charles Wilkes on the U.S. Exploring Expeditions of 1838-1842 (Caras 1962).


Rollins, James. Subterranean. New York: Avon Books, 1999. A group of scientists and military personnel are assembled to work on a project advocated by the highest people: an expedition to explore under Mt. Erebus. They discover giant reptiles which eventually attack McMurdo Base. They are amazed to find that the subterranean world is inhabited by human monotremes.

Note: A monotreme belongs to the order Monotremata, the lowest order of Mammalia consisting of the only surviving representatives of the subclass Prototheria. The egg-laying platypus and eschidnas (spiny anteater) are the only known extant monotremes. (Larousse Encyclopedia of Animal Life, 1967)


Roman, Albin A. $50,000 an Ounce!. New York, Lincoln, Shaghai: Writers Club Press, 2003. Hal Decker travels to Antarctica to search for a lost Martian meterorite. He becomes stranded at the Waterboat Point.
Rosenblum, Mary. "Second Chance". Synthesis & Other Vitual Realities. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers Inc., 1996. Originally published: Asimov's Science Fiction, 1992. Dr Reba Scott flies from McMurdo base to Marsbase in Wright Valley to treat a patient suffering from severe frost bite.
Ross, M. I. South of Zero. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1931. A boy stows away on an expedition ship bound for Ross Island. Most of his adventures are based on incidents of historic expeditions.
Ross, M. I. White Wind. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Two men and two boys are stranded in Oates Land after their hut and the rest of their party drift away on a giant calved iceberg. They then walk to Wood Bay hoping to meet their ship "Stormy Petrel".

Note: "Stormy Petrel" was a derogatory name applied to Charles Wilkes, commander of the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 (Jaffé 1976).


Rovin, Jeff. Tempest Down. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004. An American submarine and a converted tanker and a Chinese submarine collide in the Weddell Sea near Graham Land.
Rucker, Rudy. The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990. Mason Reynolds, Jeremiah Reynolds, Edgar Allan Poe, and companions fall into the hollow earth after the south polar regions collapse. They locate the people called Tekili-li.
Rufin, Jean-Christophe. Brazil Red. New York, London: W.W. & Norton Company, 2001. Translated by Williard Wood. In 1555, an expedition sails from France to Antarctic France (known to us as Brazil). Just and Colombe Clamorgan are among the childre aboard the ship. Life ashore among the various European and Indian groups is very difficult.
Russell, W. Clark. The Frozen Pirate. London: Sampson Low, Mareton, Searle, and Rivington, 1974. Originally published: 1887. A British ship's officer is castaway on an island just north of the South Shetland group. He discovers and thaws a frozen pirate, his 18th century ship, and a vast treasure.
Rutley, C. Bernard. The Cave of Winds. London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1947. Tom and Dick Standish, owners of the schooner "Kestral", experience a hurricane while on their way to New Zealand with a load of copra. They rescue Sargon from a derelict ship of gold and take him to Sur, the city of Baal located a few hundred miles from the South Pole.
Ruuth, Alpo. 158 Days (158 Vuorokautto). 1983. Translated by Hildi Hawkins. The chapter entitled "Among the ice floes" was published as an extract entitled "Sailing through the Antarctic" in Books From Finland: vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 180-187, 1985. The entire book has not been translated into English. Crew members aboard a Finnish sailboat competing in the Whitbread Round-the-World sailboat race of 1981-1982 encounter blizzard conditions in the Southern Ocean close to the Antarctic coast while sailing west towards Auckland.
Salgari, Emilio. Au Pôle Sud A Bicyclette. Paris: Librarie ch. Delagrave, 1906. Translated from Italian by J. Fargeau. To settle a gentlemanly wager, an American-British expedition leaves from Baltimore. A bicycle team pedals from the base of the Antarctic Peninsula to the Pole.
Savage, Georgia. Ceremony at Lang Nho. Ringwood (Australia): McPhee Gribble, 1994. Ches' New Zealander girlfriend, Tania, is working in the Antarctic as a truck mechanic.
Savile, Frank. Beyond the Great South Wall. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1901. A British lord inherits several 16th century Mayan artifacts which lead him to undertake an expedition to an active volcanic Antarctica. There, in an area south of Bovet's Island, he discovers mummified Mayans, gold utensils, and a live Brontosaurus Excelsus. The title page etching depicts a walrus.
Schenk, Emmy Lou. "Ice Cave". Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine: vol. 32, no. 8, August 1987. A policeman from Florida, working as a substitute research assistant for his son, solves the first Antarctic murder.
Schiver, Richard. Adversary: Some Things Are Better Left Undiscovered. San Jose, New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: Writers Club Press, 2001. A knife, older than the universe, is found beneath the ice of Antarctica. It creates a trail of death and shadowy figures.
Scholes, Katherine. The Blue Chameleon. Melbourne: Hill of Content, 1989. Beni Ish-mael searches for his twin brother Ziad. He stows away on a ship headed for the Antarctic.
Seaborn, Captain Adam. Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery. New York: J. Seymour, 1820. Microfilm: Wright American Fiction, vol. 1, 2326, roll S-5. The captain and crew of "Explorer" sail to 83° 3'S where they discover a low lying, forested land. From there they sail into the interior of the hollow Earth and discover a populated land which they name Symzonia.
Sharp, Margery. Miss Bianca in the Antarctic. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. Two mice go to the Antarctic to rescue a Norwegian poet. They are imprisoned by a polar bear cub on an exchange visit, and, in turn, are rescued by Adelie penguins, an Emperor penguin, and a helicopter.
Shavian, Liane. Surfing Antarctica. North Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Press, 1999. Darwin Brown had been to the Antarctic to film "Hot Ice." His next film project is "Surfing Antarctica" to be shown to Japanese audiences. Most of the scenes in the film are of Greenpeace mayhem.
Shaw, W. J. Crestan, Queen of the Toltus, or, Under the Auroras. New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 1888. Amos Jackson and John Harding fly on an air-ship inside the North Pole. They discover that the Earth is hollow and inhabited. A diagram proves that the interior southern magnetic pole is antipodean to east Asia. Southern whalers took Amos Jackson to Port St. Julian (San Julian).
Shea, Cornelius. "Beyond the Frozen Seas" or "The Land of the Pigmies." New York: Brave & Bold No. 67, April 2, 1904. A group sails on the ship "Lance." They discover the land of the pigmies and the South Pole.
Sheffield, Charles. Cold as Ice. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1992. The year is 2092 A.D. Jon Perry and Nell Cotter are in a submersible going down to the seabed of the Pacific Antarctic Ridge (45°S, 110°W). A smoker erupts.
Shumaker, Terry. Eliot's Rock. San Jose, New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: Writers Club Press, 2001. Dr. John Bowen joins the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Eventually, he becomes part of the Manhattan Project.
Sibson, Francis. Unthinkable. Location not given: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, Inc., 1933. The South African Antarctic Expedition is marooned in Antarctica.
Sillitoe, Alan. The Lost Flying Boat. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Captain Bennett flies his large plane and crew to Kerguelen Island to recover a treasure of gold coins.
Smith, David. Freeze Frame. Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia Ltd., 1992. The French develop a secret uranium mining operation at Dumont D'Urville Station, which is uncovered by two Australian photographers. The French secret service and a wealthy Brazilian embark on a world-wide killing spree implicating Greenpeace.
Smith, Vincent. The Last Blue Whale. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979. Originally published as Musco - Blue Whale, Australia, Harper & Row, 1979. A family of blue whales is threatened by whalers.
Smith, Wilbur. Hungry As The Sea. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1979. Originally published: William Heinemann Ltd., 1978. The owner of Ocean Towage and Salvage rescues the crew and passengers of "Golden Adventurer" which had gone aground at 72° 16'S, 32° 12'W. The cruise ship is then towed to South Africa.
Snell, Roy Judson. Ice Bound in the South Polar Sea. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1925. Two boys own a small schooner which they use in their small freight business. Their destination is Deception Island which they finally reach after many adventures.
Southall, Ivan. Simon Black in the Antarctic. London, Sydney, Melbourne, Wellington: Angus and Robertson, 1956. Simon Black and Alan Grant are sent to Antarctica by the Australian government to investigate the radio silence of Hayward Station. They discover that the area is inhabited by Neanderthals.
Spotswood, Christoper (editor). Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole. Launceston (Tasmania): Printed at the "Examiner" and "Tasmanian" office, 1888. Will Rogers sails south in a whaler. His ankle becomes caught in a kink of a whale board line. He cuts the boat loose and drifts away alone. He eventually finds the inhabited South Pole country of Bencolo.

Note: Will Rogers mentions pinetrees. See: Bird.


Stables, Gordon, C.M., M.D., R.N. From Pole to Pole. New York: John W. Lovell Company, undated (1900?). Six young men become owners of "Albatross" so that they may travel from the North Pole to the South Pole in their own ship. They eventually are shipwrecked on a southern island inhabited by black savages and sea-elephants.
Stables, Dr. Gordon. In the Great White Land. London, Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, undated (1900?). A wealthy young American adventurer sails south with two boys, Yak-Yaks, an Innuit, dogs, four polar bears, two Shetland ponies, and two ships. After circumnavigating the Antarctic at the latitude of the sub-Antarctic islands, he establishes a camp near Mt. Murchison. With his future brother-in-law he accomplishes a record farthest south at the edge of the frozen polar ocean.
Stapledon, W. Olaf. Last and First Men. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. A warping of earth's crust connects America and Antarctica 100,000 years hence. A Nordic culture develops on the Antarctic coast.
Stevens, David. White for Danger. New York: Stein and Day, 1979. An expedition from New Zealand discovers a secret Russian base near the south magnetic pole.
Stilson, Charles. Minos of Sardanes. New York: Avalon Books, 1966. Originally published in All-Story Weekly in three weekly installments beginning August 21, 1916. Sequel to Polaris of the Snows. The volcanos that made the kingdom of Sardanes (lying south of the Ross Sea) fit for habitation die out. The snows of Antarctica then cover the region. The only survivors, King Minos and his young wife, are rescued by Polaris Janess.
Stilson, Charles. Polaris and the Immortals. New York: Avalon Books, 1968. Originally published in All-Story Weekly as "Polaris and the Goddess Glorian" in fi