The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) offers this collection of open-access texts relating to Antarctic exploration and discovery. This collection, which contains 46 titles ranging from the year 1827 through 1963, may be of interest to science and history researchers alike. The collection includes James Weddell's A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24; G. Hartwig's 1868 The polar world: a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe; Robert Falcon Scott's 1907 The Voyage of the Discovery; and the journals from Scott's last expedition, which were published posthumously in 1913. Visitors can browse this collection by title, author, or year. The collection includes items held at a number of institutions, including the British Museum, the Museums Victoria, and the Smithsonian.