So, while this not strictly a specific answer to your question, a good place to look for stuff like this (imo) is the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science, which has been made into a database for public use! Luckily for you, last year a anthology of scientific writing on the Antarctic was put together by Rebecca Priestley, Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science, which can give you a perspective from the primary sources of Antarctic exploration 1774--2015. Just browsing the Bibliography, you can see there are books about the Antarctic as political geography, there's David Day's Antarctica: A Biography, and much more...

I offer the Isis Bibliography, a bibliography for historians of science, in no small part because there is a 2014 article by Vanessa Heggie, "Why Isn’t Exploration a Science?" (Isis 105:318--334) that (for me when I read it) challenged me to think about the nature of exploration as knowledge-making. Which may very well be a kind of esoteric historian's concern, but I think is also something worth considering for anyone who's interested in the nuts and bolts of exploration. In Haggie's essay, she talks about the 1911--1913 "Terra Nova" expedition in the Antarctic, which was one-part a Natural History exercise in collecting Penguin eggs and another-part an experiment in dietary science (they had packed their rations in such a fashion to allow them experiment with macro-nutrient requirements). So in a way, the whole work of organizing and conducting an expedition was a kind of natural experiment. More broadly, I think that the way that expeditions and voyages were conducted bore strongly on the kinds of knowledge produced. Which, simply speaking, means that the kinds of things you might be interested in about Antarctic exploration might be found in the work of historians of science.

If you want to read about the competing expeditions by Norway and the United Kingdom circa 1910, there is a great book.