Hoopes wrote;
"I think H.P. Lovecraft deserves credit for the lost
civilization in Antarctica in his 1936 novella "At
the Mountains of Madness""
A later, fantasy / science fiction novel with the remains of a lost
civilization being found in Antarctica is:
Barjavel, Rene, 1968, La Nuit des Temps (The Ice People), Les Presses
de la Cité. [
en.wikipedia.org]
The copy, which I have is a 1973 translation by Charles Lam Markmann
and published by Pyramid Books.
Yours,
Paul H.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)