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Antarctic books and maps
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole.
It is situated in the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.
At 14.4 million km˛ (5.4 million square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America.
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Antarctica Lonely Planet
Ready for the adventure of a lifetime?
Antarctica will astound and transform you.
Written by authors with intimate knowledge of the region, this best-selling guide is your essential companion to The Ice.
Price: $49.90
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Antarctica (for children)
Kirkwood, Roger
Antarctica is a beautiful place full of interesting wildlife, from birds like penguins and gulls to larger animals like seals and whales. It is also an important and delicate ecology that needs to be looked after.
This book explores all of these aspects and includes: colourful photographs and illustrations; text full of interesting and fun information; activities to text your knowledge; a glossary to explain new words; an index that includes both common and scientific names; and, a list of websites where you can find out more.
Price: $24.90
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Antarctica:
An Encyclopedia from Abbott Ice Shelf to Zooplankton
Trewby, Mary
Produced by the award-winning documentary company Natural History New Zealand, this beautifully illustrated guide to Antarctica features a true encyclopedia layout.
It has over 1000 concise, alphabetically arranged entries and 250 photographs that cover natural history, climate, geology, tourism, and more.
Price: $49.90
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Antarctica
Lucas, Mike
Antarctica: where swirling snows sweep across an icebound, empty landscape of cruel, yet unmatched beauty. However, over the years, human interference has taken its toll on Antarctica's resources.
This book provides a glimpse of the beauty of Antarctica and its wildlife and also educates since it is only through education and understanding that Antarctica stands a chance of being conserved for future generations.
Price: $59.90
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Improbable Eden
Potton, Craig
The Dry Valleys of Antarctica are one of the last truly remote places left on earth. With no cover of ice or snow and no rainfall, these dry valleys are 'islands' in the midst of the frozen ice of the Antarctic continent, a wonderfully strange environment of ice-covered lakes that hold some of the planet's purest water, huge expanses of wind-sculpted rock, barren eroded land forms, and glaciers that intrude into the edges of the valleys.
Access to this unique environment is extremely restricted, and subsequently Improbable Eden is the first comprehensive illustrated book to be published exclusively on the Dry Valleys.
Price: $59.90
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White Silence
Sydney, Grahame
This outstanding collection of photographs from one of New Zealand's most pre-eminent artists, Grahame Sydney, pays homage to the Antarctic landscape.
His photographs reveal an extraordinary terrain that is solemn, sparse and poised with a magnificent stillness.
Exploring a continent that appears at first glance to be devoid of colour, warmth or comfort, each image celebrates the rare flashes of astonishing beauty that can be found in the bleakest, most inhospitable region of Earth.
Price: $115
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South with Endurance
Hurley, Frank
South with Endurance presents photographer Frank Hurley's amazing record of the Endurance's dramatic expedition to Antarctica, 1912-17. This is the complete collection of surviving photographs from the expedition. They range from the ordinary to the extraordinary – evocative photographs of the Antarctic landscape, life on board the Endurance, the Endurance trapped in the packed ice and finally the rescue.
It is the first book to reproduce all expedition photographs, approximately 500, including Hurley's remarkable colour Paget plates.
Price: $115
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South
Shackleton, Ernest
Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time.
In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death.
This is the extraordinary account of treacherous seas, glaciers and relentless cold, and wonderfully encapsulates the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
Price: $27.9
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Captain Scott
Fiennes, Ranulph
No-one is better placed than Fiennes to understand what Scott may have experienced or to appreciate the enormity of his achievement. A gripping tale of courage and adventure.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has done Captain Scott's memory some service. He has written a dispassionate and balanced account. He is uniquely qualified because only someone who has "man-hauled" across Antarctica can know what went on.
Price: $29.90
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Terra Incognita
Wheeler, Sara
Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the "Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station". She spent six weeks at the pole.
In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them.
Price: $27.90
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FIrst Antarctic Winter
Crawford, Janet
The first expedition to spend a winter on the Antarctic mainland could truly be called the expedition from hell. That First Antarctic Winter, written and edited by Janet Crawford, granddaughter of one of the expeditioners, presents an account of it that squeezes one's heart with pity. It is a tale of madness, death, insubordination and fear.
Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition has been so overlooked that few people know of it. It was the second significant expedition in Australia's involvement with the Antarctic; it supplied the information for later expeditions; it was a brilliant and brave thing to do.
Price: $59.90
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Unclaimed Coast
Charles, Graham; Waters, Mark; Jones, Mark
Unclaimed Coast is an enthralling tale of triumph, told by three men passionate about the environment and challenging themselves to the extent of their abilities.
The story covers each leg of their journey and dives into the island's fascinating history, wildlife and environment, Shackleton's legacy and previous attempts at circumnavigation. Circumnavigating South Georgia Island by kayak was attempted twice before the authors' successful expedition. Both attempts failed, thwarted by bad weather, lack of rations and exhaustion.
Price: $39.90
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Mawson's Huts
The Birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage
A beautifully written and illustrated history of Mawson's Huts, the unique buildings used as the base for one of the most significant expeditions in Antarctic history.
Mawson's team of 31 expeditioners, with an average age of just 26, established three bases. The main one was built at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, where in March and March 1912 they built the wooden hut from Oregon and Baltic pine that was to be their home for two years.
It was from here that the disaster and heroism of Mawson's far eastern sledging party continues to frame the popular perception of his legendary polar explorations.
Price: $120
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Racing With Death:
Douglas Mawson - Antarctic Explorer
Riffenburgh, Beau
Mawson's expedition, undertaken on a small whaling ship called Aurora, combines several exceptionally exciting elements.
Once in the Antarctic, the expedition split up into smaller parties exploring different areas. The two other members of Mawson's party died and Mawson was left to struggle hundreds of miles back to base on his own.
Despite incredible odds, he made it, only to find that the rescue ship had sailed away, leaving him to face a year on his own in the Antarctic.
Scientifically and geographically speaking, Mawson's expedition was truly groundbreaking and established Australia as a key player in the Antarctic.
Price: $49.90
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Mawson's Antarctic Diaries
Jacka, Eleanor and Fred
Mawson's Antarctic Diaries brings together for the first time all his descriptive writings while in the Antarctic.
An uncensored record of events, they reveal Mawson's innermost thoughts at times of great stress and conflict on ship and on shore, through achievement and failure, joy and tragedy.
This book includes some of Frank Hurley's most famous Antarctic photographs, as well as some not reproduced before.
Price: $49.90
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Beyond the Limits
Fiennes, Ranulph
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been hailed as the world's greatest living explorer. In this book, he looks back on three decades of adventures in all corners of the globe and what he has learned from them.
Reflecting on such diverse themes as the importance of choosing the right team, monitoring the opposition and dealing with the media, Sir Ranulph presents a breathtaking collection of photographs from his personal archive and discusses the - sometimes painful - lessons he has taken away from each expedition.
Price: $69.90
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Antarctic Peninsula Map
The North of the Peninsula is the most visited part of Antarctica every summer. Glaciers, inlets and sailing ports, scientific stations, etc. On the reverse are large maps of the main islands and ports.
Size: 950 x 650 mm
Scale: 1:1,500,000
Price: $24.90
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Antarctic Continent Exploration Map
Detailed map including the historical approaches and penetration routes to the White Continent. Sites and stations. Pictures of old ships.
Size: 1020 x 720 mm
Scale: 1:6,800,000
Price: $34.90
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Map of Antarctica
The map includes insets of territorial claims, sub-glacial rock surface, and descriptions of Antarctic wildlife.
Scale: 1:8,000,000
Price: $27.90
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Ross Island
This map shows topographic features as well as ASPA boundaries, historic huts and modern bases.
On the reverse a full-colour poster complete with photos and timeline detailing the history of Ross Island from discovery through to the present day.
Size: 1050 x 840 mm
Scale: 1:100,000
Price: $16.90
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Ushuaia to Antarctica
The ship voyage from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula is the trip of a lifetime. After two days navigating on a sea with the strongest and wildest currents and winds, the traveller arrives at a paradise for people looking for nature, history and adventure.
Size: 950 x 650 mm
Scale: 1:5,000,000
Price: $19.90
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National Geographic Map of Antarctica
Size: 790 x 510
Unlaminated: $39.90
Laminated: $54.90
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