This Antarctic reading list of books has been selected for general interest reading.

  • Ayres, P 2003, Mawson: a life, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.
  • Bowden, T 1997, The Silence Calling: Australians in Antarctica 1947-97: the ANARE Jubilee history, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW.
  • Day, D 2012, Antarctica : a biography, Knopf, North Sydney.
  • Fitzsimons, P 2011, Mawson and the ice men of the heroic age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen, Heinemann, North Sydney.
  • Gray, T 2022, Oceans of plastic: Understanding and problem solving a pollution problem, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton.
  • Griffiths, T 2007, Slicing the silence: voyaging to Antarctica, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
  • Macquitty, M 2021, Eyewitness Ocean, Dorling Kindersley, London.
  • Marchant, H, Lugg, D & Quilty, P (eds) 2002, Australian Antarctic science: the first 50 years of ANARE, Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tas.
  • Martin, S 1996, A History of Antarctica, State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
  • Mawson, D 2010, The home of the blizzard: an Australian hero’s classic tale of Antarctic discovery and adventure. Rev. ed., Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA.
  • Pomereu, J, et al. 2023, Antarctica : a history in 100 objects, Conway Publishing.
  • Riffenburgh, B 2010, Douglas Mawson, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.
  • Shirihai, H 2008, A complete guide to Antarctic wildlife 2nd ed., Black, London.
  • Soper, T 2018, Antarctica: a guide to the wildlife. 7th ed., Bradt Travel Guides, Chalfont St Peter.
  • Walker, G 2024, Antarctica : an intimate portrait of the world’s most mysterious continent, Bloomsbury Publishing
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