Tuhia tētahi tohungatanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whiwhi a Riffenburgh i tana tohu tākuta i te Scott Polar Research Institute i te Whare Wānanga o Cambridge. He maha nga pukapuka i tuhia e ia, i whakatikaina ranei mo te torotoro polar, tae atu ki te "The Myth of the Explorer", he tirotiro matauranga mo te hononga o te panui rongonui me te torotoro; "Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition", te korero mo te Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition
, i tata tata ai ki te Pou Tonga me te Pou Magnetic ki te Tonga; me te "Racing with Death", te korero mo nga haerenga Antarctic a Douglas Mawson. Ko ia te kaiwhakatika o te "Encyclopedia of the Antarctic", he mahi e rua nga pukapuka, koinei te pukapuka tohutoro tino nui kua whakaputaina mo Antarctica.