Do you know your way around polar exploring in literature? - quiz


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Can you complete the challenge? ... Preparing in 2007 for a modern recreation of Ernest Shackleton's expedition. Photograph: Shackleton Foundation/PA

  1. 1. What was the title of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's 1922 book about an expedition he made with Captain Scott?

  2. 2. Which character begins Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with an account of a voyage to the Arctic?

  3. 3. In his poem Antarctica, the Northern-Irish poet Derek Mahon details the last moments of Captain Oates. How many times is the quotation, "just going outside and may be some time" repeated?

  4. 4. Edgar Allan Poe's only completed novel tells the story of a doomed voyage to the south pole. What is its title?

  5. 5. What throws the hero of Ian McEwan's novel Solar into a panic in the Arctic?

  6. 6. How do the creatures known as the Elder Things survive in the Antarctic in HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness?

  7. 7. Beryl Bainbridge's 1995 novel The Birthday Boys is about Scott's expedition to the Antarctic. From whose point of view is the story told?

  8. 8. Which polar explorer's daughter, known as the snow baby, has written a book about the women behind the polar heroes?

  9. 9. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, how is the ice described as the mariner reaches the Arctic?

  10. 10. In Jules Verne's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866), what is discovered in the Arctic and named after Hatteras?

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