At the Mountains of Madness while exploring, for 10 points, what region that contains the South Pole?
A nonfiction account of a trip to this region in which Dr. Bill Wilson searches for rare eggs is the subject of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World. An island in this region is the setting of the endings of Charles Romyn Dake's novel A Strange Discovery, a 2011 novel by Mat Johnson, and a "mystery" named for this region by Jules Verne. Those three books are based on an 1838 novel in which this region's island of Tsalal, which contains an enormous "sphinx", is visited by the title character and the sailor Dirk Peters. A shrouded white figure appears in this region at the end of Edgar (*) Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. William Dyer's expedition of scholars from Miskatonic University discovers the ruins of the civilization of the "Elder Things" in H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness while exploring, for 10 points, what region that contains the South Pole?
A nonfiction account of a trip to this region in which Dr. Bill Wilson searches for rare eggs is the subject of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World.
Antarctica [or the Antarctic; accept Ross Ice Shelf before “island”; do not accept or prompt on “Ross Ice Shelf” after “island”; do not accept or prompt on “South Pole”] &lt;Hart&gt;