The result of a three-year devoted work based on a couple decades of Antarctic research, this 368-page edition is an encyclopedic narrative of the principal topics related to Antarctica – nature, history, sovereignty and politics, Antarctic science, resources, fisheries, tourism and Antarctic names, naturally not forgetting Bulgarian participation. The book includes an extensive bibliography (with most of the items available online), and is amply illustrated with over one hundred photographs, old and new maps and paintings, some of them unique.
Lyubomir Ivanov is a polar explorer, founding chair of the Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission, and national representative of Bulgaria to the international Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI).
Nusha Ivanova has participated in four Antarctic expeditions, and was the first Bulgarian school student to visit Antarctica.
A second, revised and expanded (electronic) edition of the book was published on 26 September 2014, ISBN 978-619-90008-2-3