| Resource | Author | Notes |
| Through The First Antarctic Night | Frederick Cook | Fred’s “popular account” of the expedition. English. Lush descriptions and a lot of photographs, but lacking in drama, personal details, and accuracy. Photos primarily depict new lands, animals, etc surveyed. Content notice for this and other primary Belgica sources: skull-measuring 19th-century anthropology. |
| Fifteen Months in the Antarctic | Adrien de Gerlache | Gerlache's account of the expedition. Only digitized in French, check used book resources for English. |
| Exploration of Antarctic Lands | Henryk Arctowski | English. Be warned that this is extremely dry; it was written for a geographical journal. |
| Royal Geographic Society of Belgium Lectures | Georges Lecointe, Henryk Arctowski, Emil Racovitza | French-language lecture series given over the weeks following the expedition's return to Belgium, Nov.-Dec. 1899. Gerlache is featured extremely briefly. For translations, see below. |
| Towards the South Pole | Emil Racovitza | French-language lecture given at the Sorbonne in Feb. 1900. Laugh-out-loud funny. For translation, see below. |
| In the Land of the Penguins | Georges Lecointe | Lecointe's account of the expedition, published 1904 (later than the above). Delightfully amusing read, full of personality. Digitized in French & German, check used book resources for English. |
| Results of the Belgica: Geophysics: Pendulum Measurements | Georges Lecointe | Only digitized in French. Contains a eulogy for Émile Danco. |
| Roald Amundsen’s Belgica Diary | Roald Amundsen | Not available online - check used book resources. As a diary, this book differs from the public-facing narratives listed above. The other resources below were also produced on board the Belgica but not intended for the contemporary public's view. |
| Johan Koren's Belgica Diary | Johan Koren | Norwegian. No translation available, but the drawings are wonderful. |
| Meeting Notes | Georges Lecointe | French transcriptions of two rather tense meetings held on board. For translations, see below. |
| Emil Racovitza's Belgica Diary | Emil Racovitza | Not available online - must be requested in-person at the NYPL. Written in French. For information on translation efforts, see below. |
| Racovitza's cartoons | Emil Racovitza | Hilarious, must-see images produced throughout the expedition. Primarily French. Some English, Spanish, & Norwegian appears. For translations, see below. |