Skatte van die Suidpool by Arthur Bleksley

This is a children's story of an Antarctic expedition sent out by South Africa. It was published in 1963, when the South African Antarctic research was just taking off.

The story seems to be a re-hashing of previous expeditions' stories. I recognize strains of Scott, Shackleton, Hilary & Fuchs, but without the suffering.

The author obviously has not been to Antarctica before. There are too many places in the story where sunset plays an important role. While the night in Antarctic is just as dark as elsewhere, the sunsets are so very slow that one would never say "it's going to be dark in an hour."