This article is a list of English-language nonfiction books which have been described by reliable sources as in some way directly relating to the subject of Antarctica, its history, geography, people, etc.
- Adie, Raymond J. - Antarctic Geology and Geophysics: Proceedings of a symposium, Oslo, Norway, August 1970.[1]
- Alexander, Caroline - The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition.[2]
- Amundsen, Roald - Race to the South Pole.[3]
- Antarctica: Compiled from All Available Sources to 1943, Including the Results of All American Expeditions from the United States Exploring Expedition 1839–1841 to the United States Antarctic Service 1940–1941. [4]
- Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year: Based on a Symposium on the Antarctic.[5]
- Arnesen, Liv - No horizon is so far: two women and their extraordinary journey across Antarctica.[6]
- Auburn, F. M. – Antarctic Law and Politics. [7]
- Bancroft, Ann, Liv Arnesen, and Cheryl Dahle – No Horizon Is so Far: A Historic Journey across Antarctica. [8]
- Barczewski, Stephanie L. - Antarctic destinies: Scott, Shackleton and the changing face of heroism.[9]
- Baughman, T. H. - Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s.[10]
- Beals, Herbert K. - Four Travel Journals: The Americas, Antarctica, and Africa.[11]
- Behrendt, John C. - Innocents on the ice: a memoir of Antarctic exploration.[12]
- Belanger, Dian Olson – Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science. [13][14]
- The Belgian Expedition under the Command of A. de Gerlache de Gomery. [15]
- Bertram, Colin - Antarctica, Cambridge, Conservation and Population: A Biologist's Story.[16]
- Bertram, Colin – Antarctica Sixty Years Ago: A Re-Appraisal of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934–37. [17]
- Bickel, Lennard - Mawson's will: the greatest polar survival story ever written.[18]
- Bickel, Lennard - Shackleton's forgotten men: the untold tragedy of the endurance epic.[19]
- Boggs, S. W. - The Polar Regions: Geographical and Historical Data for Consideration in a Study of Claims to Sovereignty in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.[20]
- Bohme, Rolf – Inventory of World Topographic Mapping. Volume 3: Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica. [21]
- Burke, David - Voyage to the end of the world: with tales from the great ice barrier.[22]
- Burns, Robin - Just tell them I survived: women in Antarctica.[23]
- Bush, W. M. - Antarctica and International Law: A Collection of Inter-state and National Documents.[24][25]
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn - Alone: the classic polar adventure.[26]
- Caesar, Adrian - The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson, 1911–1913.[27]
- Cassidy, William A. – Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica: A Personal Account. [28]
- Charney, Jonathan I. - The New Nationalism and the Use of Common Spaces: Issues in Marine Pollution and the Exploration of Antarctica.[29][30][31]
- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley - The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910–1913.[32][33]
- Chester, S. – A Wildlife Guide to Chile, Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago. [34]
- Child, Jack - Antarctica and South American Geopolitics: Frozen Lebensraum.[35][36]
- Cokinos, Christopher - The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars.[37]
- Collier, Graham - Antarctic odyssey: in the footsteps of the South Polar explorers.[38]
- Copeland, Sebastian. Antarctica: The Global Warning.[39]
- Cox, Lynne - Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer.[40][41]
- Croizat, Leon - Manual of Plant-Geography or an Account of Plant-Dispersal throughout the World.[42]
- De Witt, Maarten J. – Minerals and Mining in Antarctica: Science and Technology, Economics and Politics. [43]
- Diski, Jenny - Skating to Antarctica: Skating to the End of the World.[44][45]
- Does, Willem van der - Storms, ice, and whales: the Antarctic adventures of a Dutch artist on a Norwegian whaler.[46]
- Ecklund, Carl R. and Joan Beckman - Antarctica: Polar Research and Discovery During the International Geophysical Year.[47]
- Edholm, O. G. and E. K. E. Gunderson – Polar Human Biology: The Proceedings of the SCAR/IUPS/IUBS Symposium on Human Biology and Medicine in the Antarctic. [48]
- English, Robert A. J. - Sailing Directions for Antarctica, Including the Off-Lying Islands South of Latitude 60 degrees.[49][50]
- Ferguson, A. – Geological Observations in the South Shetlands, the Palmer Archipelago, and Graham Land, Antarctica. [51]
- Fiennes, Ranulph - Captain Scott.[52]
- Fiennes, Ranulph - Mind Over Matter: The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent.[53]
- Fiennes, Ranulph - Race to the Pole: tragedy, heroism, and Scott's Antarctic quest.[54]
- Fox, Robert - Antarctica and the South Atlantic: Discovery, Development and Dispute.[55]
- Fox, William L. - Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent.[56][57][58][59]
- Francioni, Francesco and Tullio Scovazzi – International Law for Antarctica. [60][61]
- Fuchs, Arved - In Shackleton's wake.[62]
- Geophysical Monograph No. 1. Antarctica in the I. G. Y. [63]
- Giæver, John - The White Desert: The Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition.[64]
- Gorman, James - Ocean enough and time: discovering the waters around Antarctica.[65]
- Grattan, C. Hartley – The Southwest Pacific Since 1900. A Modern History: Australia, New Zealand, the Islands, Antarctica. [66][67]
- Grattan, C. Hartley - The Southwest Pacific to 1900: A Modern History: Australian, New Zealand, the Islands, Antarctica.[66][68][69][70]
- Green, Bill - Water, ice & stone: science and memory on the Antarctic lakes.[71]
- Greene, Dorothy M. – A Conspectus of the Mosses of Antarctica, South Georgia, the Falkland Islands and Southern South America. [72]
- Gressitt, J. L. - Entomology of Antarctica, Vol. 10, Antarctic Research Series.[73]
- Griffiths, Tom - Slicing the silence: voyaging to Antarctica.[74][75]
- Gunn, B. M. and Guyon Warren - Geology 4: Geology of Victoria Land between the Mawson and Mulock Glaciers, Antarctica.[76]
- Gurney, Alan - Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699–1839.[77][78]
- Gurney, Alan - The race to the white continent.[79]
- Hall, Lincoln - The Loneliest Mountain: the dramatic story of the first expedition to climb Mt Minto, Antarctica.[80]
- Hanc, John - The coolest race on earth: mud, madmen, glaciers, and grannies at the Antarctica marathon.[81]
- Harrison, Albert A. & Yvonne Clearwater - From Antarctica to Outer Space: Life in Isolation and Confinement.[82]
- Hartman, Olga – Polychaeta Errantia of Antarctica. Volume 3, Antarctic Research Series. [83]
- Hartman, Olga – Polychaeta Myzostomidae and Sedentarian of the Antarctica. Volume 7, Antarctic Research Series. [83]
- Hartman, Olga – Polychaetous Annelids Collected by the USNS Eitanin and Staten Island Cruises Chiefly from Antarctic Seas. Allan Hancock Monographs in Biology, No. 2.[83]
- Hayes, J. Gordon – Antarctica: A Treatise on the Southern Continent. [84]
- Herzefeld, Ute Christina - Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data.[85]
- Higgins, P. J., J. M. Peter, and W. K. Steele – Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 5 Tyrant-Flycatchers to Chats. [86]
- Hisdal, V., O. A. Amble, and N. J. Schumacher – Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–1952. Scientific Results: Vol. 1, Meteorology: Part 2, Surface Observations; Sub-Part 1, Air Pressure. [87]
- Hobbs, William Herbert - The Discoveries of Antarctica within the American Sector, as Revealed by Maps and Documents.[88][89]
- Holdgate, M. W. - Antarctic Ecology: Based on a symposium, Cambridge, England, 1968.[90]
- Hooper, Meredith - The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica. Alternatively published under the title: The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica.[91][92][93][94]
- Huntford, Roland - The Last Place on Earth (aka Scott and Amundsen).[95][96]
- Huntford, Roland - Shackleton.[96][97]
- Husseiny, A. A. – Iceberg Utilization: Proceedings of the First International Conference and Workshops on Iceberg Utilization for Fresh Water Production, Weather Modification and Other Applications Held at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, 2-6 Oct. 1977. [98]
- Jacquet, Luc, photos by Jerome Maison, trans. by Donnali Fifield - March of the Penguins.[99]
- Johnson, Nicholas - Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica.[100][101][102]
- Johnson, Rebecca L. - Science on the Ice: An Antarctic Journal.[103]
- Jones, A. G. E. – Antarctica Observed: Who Discovered the Antarctic Continent? [104]
- Jones, Max - The last great quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic sacrifice.[105]
- Joyner, Christopher C. and Sudhir K. Chopra - The Antarctic Legal Regime.[106]
- Kearns, David A. - ''Where hell freezes over: a story of amazing bravery and survival.[107]
- Kelly, Philip and Jack Child – Geopolitics of the Southern Cone and Antarctica.[36]
- Kolbert, Elizabeth, ed. with Francis Spufford - The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic.[108]
- Landis, Marilyn J. - Antarctica: exploring the extreme: 400 years of adventure.[109]
- Lansing, Alfred - Endurance: Shackleton's incredible voyage.[110]
- Lee, Richard E., Jr. and David L. Denlinger - Insects at Low Temperature.[111]
- Legler, Gretchen - On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.[112][113][114]
- Liljequist, G. H. - Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–1952. Scientific Results: Vol. II, Meteorology: Part 1, Energy Exchange of an Antarctic Snowfield, Sub-Part A, Short-Wave Radiation, 1956; Sub Part B, Long-Wave Radiation and Radiation Balance, 1956; Sub-Part C, Wind Structure in the Low Layer, 1957; Sub-Part D, Surface Inversions and Turbulent Heat Transfer, 1957. [87]
- Liljequist, G. H. - Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–1952. Scientific Results: Vol. II, Meteorology: Part 2, Special Studies. Sub-Part A, Halo-Phenomena and Ice Crystals. [87]
- Lizotte, Michael and Kevin Arrigo – Antarctic Sea Ice: Biological Processes, Interactions and Variability, Antarctic Research Series, Vol. 73. [115]
- Lorentsen, S.-H. - Reproductive Effort in the Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica Antarctica: The Effect of Parental Body Size and Condition.[116]
- Lynch, Wayne - Penguins of the world.[117]
- MacDowall, Joseph – On Floating Ice: Two Years on an Antarctic Ice-Shelf. [118]
- Mastro, Jim, with Norbert Wu - Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu.[119][120]
- Mathews, Eleanor - Ambassador to the penguins: a naturalist's year aboard a yankee whaleship.[121]
- Matthiessen, Peter - End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica.[122]
- Mawson, Douglas, Sir - The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival.[123]
- McGonigal, David - Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent.[124][125][126]
- McSween, Harry Y. - Meteorites and Their Parent Planets.[127]
- Mercy, David - Berserk: my voyage to Antarctica in a twenty-seven-foot sailboat.[128]
- Moorehead, Alan - The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767–1840.[129]
- Morris, Michael M. – Great Power Reliations in Argentina, Chile and Antarctica. [36][130]
- Murphy, Joseph E. - South to the Pole by ski: nine men and two women pioneer a new route to the South Pole.[131]
- Murphy, Robert Cushman – Oceanic Birds of South America. A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, Including the American Quadrant of Antarctica Based Upon the Brewster-Sanford Collection in the American Museum of Natural History:Volumes I and II. [132][133][134][135]
- Myers, Joan - Wondrous cold: an Antarctic journey.[136]
- Myhre, Jeffrey D. – The Antarctic Treaty System: Politics, Law and Diplomacy. [43]
- Naveen, Ron - Waiting to fly: my escapades with the penguins of Antarctica.[137][138]
- Nicoll, Alastair Vere -Riding the Ice Wind: By Kite and Sledge Across Antarctica.[139]
- Norsenskjold, N. Otto G. and Joh. Gunnar Andersson – Antarctica, or Two Years amongst the Ice of the South Pole. [15]
- Ochyra, Ryszard - The illustrated moss flora of Antarctica.[140]
- Ochyra, Ryszard - The Moss Flora of King George Island, Antarctica.[141]
- Ovstedal, DO and RI Lewis Smith – Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia: A Guide to Their Identification and Ecology. [142]
- Parker, Bruce C. – Proceedings of the Colloquium on Conservation Problems in Antarctica. Blackburg, Va., Sept. 1971. [143]
- Parsons, Anthony – Antarctica: The Next Decade: Report of a Study Group. [144]
- Patterson, Diana - The ice beneath my feet: my year in Antarctica.[145]
- Peterson, M. J. – Managing the Frozen South: The Creation and Evolution of the Antarctic Treaty System. [61]
- Philbrick, Nathaniel - Sea of Glory: America's voyage of discovery: the U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842.[146]
- Plimpton, George - Ernest Shackleton.[147]
- Polar Research Board – Antarctic Treaty System: An Assessment. Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Beardmore South Field Camp, Antarctica, January 7–13, 1985. [148]
- Price, A. Grenfell – The Winning of Australian Antarctica: Mawson's B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. Voyages 1929-1931: Based on the Mawson Papers. [149]
- Priestley, Raymond, Raymond J. Adie and G. de Q. Robin - Antarctic Research: A Review of British Scientific Achievement in Antarctica.[150]
- Priscu, John C. – Ecosystems Dynamics in a Polar Desert: The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctic research Series, Vol. 72. [151]
- Pyne, Stephen J. – The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica. [152]
- Quam, Louis O. & Horace D. Porter - Research in the Antarctic: A symposium, Dallas, Texas, Dec. 1968.[153]
- Quartermain, L. B. - South to the Pole: The Early History of the Ross Sea Sector, Antarctica.[154][155]
- Quigg, Philip W. - A Pole Apart: The Emerging Issue of Antarctica.[156][157]
- Riffenburgh, Beau, ed. - Encyclopedia of the Antarctic.[158]
- Riffenburgh, Beau - Shackleton's forgotten expedition: the voyage of the Nimrod.[159]
- Roberts, Leslie Carol - The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica.[160][161]
- Robertson, Hugh and Barrie Heather – The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand. [162]
- Rodgers, Eugene - Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica.[163][164]
- Rose, Lisle A. – Assault on Eternity: Richard E. Byrd and the Exploration of Antarctica, 1946–47. [165]
- Rosove, Michael H. - Let heroes speak: Antarctic explorers, 1772–1922.[166]
- Ross, M. J. – Ross in the Antarctic: The Voyages of James Clark Ross in Her Majesty's Ships ‘’Erebus’’ and ‘’Terror’’ 1839–1843.[104]
- Rudmose-Brown, R. N. – The Polar Regions: A Physical and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Antarctic. [84]
- Sanderson, Marie - Griffith Taylor: Antarctic Scientist and Pioneer Geographer.[167]
- Schytt, V. - Snow and Ice Studies in Antarctica: Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–52.[168]
- Science in Antarctica: A Report by the Committee on Polar Research.[169]
- Scott, Jonathan and Angela Scott - Antarctica: Exploring a Fragile Eden.[170]
- Scott, Robert Falcon - Journals: Captain Scott's last expedition.[171]
- Scott, Robert Falcon - Scott's last expedition: the journals.[172]
- Scott, Robert Falcon - The Voyage of the Discovery.[173]
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry - Escape from the Antarctic.[174]
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry - The heart of the Antarctic: being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–1909.[175]
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry - Shackleton, his Antarctic writings.[176]
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry - South: the Endurance expedition.[177]
- Shackleton, Jonathan - Shackleton: an Irishman in Antarctica.[178]
- Shapiro, Deborah - Time on ice: a winter voyage to Antarctica.[179]
- Shirihai, Hadoram - The Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: birds and marine mammals of the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean, 2nd ed.[180][181]
- Shulman, Neville - Some Like It Cold: Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.[182]
- Simpson, George Gaylord – Splendid Isolation. [183]
- Simpson, Ken, Nicholas Day, and Peter Trusler - Birds of Antarctica.[184]
- Simpson-Housley, Paul - Antarctica: Exploration, Perception, and Metaphor.[185]
- Smith, Michael - Tom Cream: unsung hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic expeditions.[186]
- Smith, Roff Martin - Life on the Ice: No One Goes to Antarctica Alone.[187][188][189]
- Solomon, Susan - The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition.[190]
- The South Pole: a historical reader.[191]
- Spufford, Francis - I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination.[192]
- Stokke, Olav Schram and Davor Vidas – Governing the Antarctic: The Effectiveness and Legitimacy of the Antarctic Treaty System. [60]
- Stone, Greg - Ice island: the expedition to Antarctica's largest iceberg.[193]
- Stroud, Mike - Shadows on the Wasteland.[194]
- Suggate, L. S. - Australia and New Zealand, with Pacific Islands and Antarctica.[195]
- Swan, Robert - Antarctica 2041: My Quest to Save the Earth's Last Wilderness.[196][197]
- Swithinbank, Charles – An Alien in Antarctica: Reflections upon Forty Years of Exploration and Research on the Frozen Continent. [198]
- Swithinbank, Charles – Foothold on Antarctica: The First International Expedition (1949–1952) through the Eyes of Its Youngest Member. [118]
- Thomas, David N., G. E. (Tony) Fogg, Peter Convey, Christian H. Fritsen, Josep-Maria Gili, Rold Gradinger, Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Keith Reid, and David W. H. Walton - The Biology of Polar Regions: Revised Edition. Biology of Habitats.[199]
- Thomson, David - Scott, Shackleton, and Amundesen: ambition and tragedy in the Antarctic.[200]
- Triggs, Gillian D. – The Antarctic Treaty Regime: Law, Environment and Resources. [43][144]
- Tulloch, Coral - Antarctica: The Heart of the World.[201]
- Tyler-Lewis, Kelly - The Lost Men: the Harrowing Story of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party.[202]
- Tyrell, G. W. – A Contribution to the Petrography of the South Shetland Islands, the Palmer Archipelago, and the Danco Land Coast, Antarctica. [51]
- United Nations General Assembly – Question of Antarctica: Report of the Secretary-General. [7]
- Vicuna, Francisco Orrego - Antarctic Mineral Exploitation: The Emerging Framework.[61][106]
- Vicuna, Francisco Orrego – Antarctic Resources Policy: Scientific, Legal and Political Issues.[7]
- Wainwright, J. A. - Flight of the Falcon: Scott's Journey to the South Pole 1910–1912.[203]
- Weyers, Chris - White demon: one man's quest for the South Pole.[204]
- Wheeler, Sara - Cherry: a life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard.[205]
- Wheeler, Sara - Terra incognita: travels in Antarctica.[206]
- Williams, Isobel - With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson, Explorer, Naturalist, Artist.[207]
- Worsley, Frank Arthur - Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure.[208]
- Worsley, Frank Arthur - Shackleton's Boat Journey.[209]