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