Unknown southern land: stories for children about the history of the discovery and study of Antarctica

The book consists of short, related stories about the history of the discovery and study of Antarctica. First of all, these are stories about the Russian expedition of F.F. Bellingshausen and M.P. Lazarev 1819-1821, which opened the southern mainland, about the difficulties that accompanied this risky and responsible swimming.
You will also learn about the events in Antarctica in the second half of the XIX and XX centuries. - On the marine expeditions of James Wedell, Dumon-Durville, James Ross and other researchers, about foot expeditions to the southern pole of R. Amundsen, the Scott group, about Soviet Antarctic expeditions.
But the story would be incomplete without stories about previous expeditions of the XVI-XIX centuries. In search of an unknown southern land and about navigators who made these voyages.
The book is illustrated and contains cards on which it is convenient to monitor the events described in the text