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Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- American

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• Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration

• Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1940, 1841, 1842 (5 volumes; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845), by Charles Wilkes
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
• Voyage Round the World, Embracing the Principal Events of the Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition (Philadelphia: G. W. Gorton, 1849), by Charles Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic With Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1925), by Frank Hurley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (2 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1909), by Ernest Henry Shackleton, contrib. by Hugh Robert Mill and T. W. Edgeworth David
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-17, by Ernest Henry Shackleton (Gutenberg text)

• Silas: The Antarctic Diaries and Memoir of Charles S. Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Charles S. Wright, ed. by Colin Bull and Pat F. Wright (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Great White South: Being an Account of Experiences With Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1922), by Herbert George Ponting (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-13, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, illust. by Edward Wilson (Gutenberg text)
• Aurora Australis (Antarctica: Winter Quarters of the British Antarctic expedition, 1908), ed. by Ernest Henry Shackleton, illust. by George Marston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Monikins (New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1855), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at MOA)
• The Monikins (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Monikins (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1873), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Monikins, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)

• The Great White South: Being an Account of Experiences With Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1922), by Herbert George Ponting (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Antarctica: Music, Sounds and Cultural Connections (c2015), by Rupert Summerson and Arnan Wiesel Bernadette Hince, ed. by Bernadette Hince, Rupert Summerson, and Arnan Wiesel (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• An Antarctic Mystery: or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1899), by Jules Verne, trans. by Frances Cashel Hoey (HTML in Israel)

• The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912, by Roald Amundsen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912, by Roald Amundsen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)