A treasure hunt! Biggles and friends are bored when an old friend arrives at the office telling a story about a ship loaded with gold stuck in the Antarctic ice.

It's a typical Biggles adventure. Maybe a bit better than average. A lot is made of the navigating in snow and ice and how compasses don't work close to the south pole. I would have loved to learn more about how they worked around those problems but no technical details provided.

Ginger remains the only human in the group, which even furthermore reduces Algy to be a bystander. W.E. Johns don't seem to have liked Algy. ( )

Excellent pictorial cover even if the 6 armed fighters look like a boy band in the snow