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After a global search, the Antarctic Heritage Trust Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Francesca Eathorne as its new Executive Director! Francesca has been with the Trust for more than six years, most recently as Chief Operations Officer.
The AHT team offer their heartfelt congratulations to Francesca, and we are excited to deliver our mission to conserve, share and encourage the spirit of exploration under Francesca’s leadership.
The Trust’s On-Ice Conservation team returned more than 900 artefacts to their sites at Scott’s ‘Terra Nova’ hut and Shackleton’s ‘Nimrod’ hut over the intensive Summer Conservation season. This included this fascinating improvised sledge distance meter that once belonged to George Murray Levick, built by the ‘Terra Nova’ ships carpenter. Levick was the surgeon, zoologist and a photographer on Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, and was part of the Northern Party that wintered at Cape Adare in 1911.
Presented by respected operator Antarctica21, Antarctic Heritage Trust’s ninth Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ will honour the centenary year of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final expedition (Quest 1921–1922) which journeyed to South Georgia and marked the end of the heroic-era of Antarctic exploration.
It will provide an opportunity for 22 young New Zealanders aged 18-30 to explore South Georgia Island, connect with the legacy the Trust cares for and embrace their spirit of exploration.
As part of our wider Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ South Georgia, three members of the team will have the added opportunity to join Expedition leader, Nigel Watson, and two professional mountaineering guides on the first Kiwi ascent of Mount Worsley, in recognition of Kiwi explorer Frank Worsley, the mountain’s namesake.
Applications are now closed and the team will be announced mid June
They’ve endured waves of ice, high altitudes, extreme winds and punishing sub-zero temperatures and late on 6 January 2023 the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expeditionâ„¢ team reached the South Pole.
The expedition set off from Ronne Ice Shelf on 18 November. Each member skied almost 1,000km over 50 days towing their equipment on a sledge behind them.
Two special historic Antarctic artefacts connected with Captain Robert Falcon Scott are soon to be returned to the Ice!
After 60 years traveling the globe, the box of cocoa tins and a Shell motor spirits box will be reinstated to Scott’s Antarctic hut at Cape Evans. The Trust’s conservation team will return the artefacts during this season’s annual monitoring and maintenance programme.
The items, which were both crucial supplies on expeditions during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, have been donated to the Trust by former United States naval Captain Dave Baker.
The Trust welcomes donations of Antarctic artefacts and will work with donors to return these important pieces of history back to the historic sites.
Antarctic Heritage Trust invites you to join us online for A Musical Journey to Antarctica, featuring five classical compositions by Inspiring Explorer Ihlara McIndoe accompanied by stunning visuals of Antarctica captured by renowned Antarctic filmmaker and photographer Anthony Powell.
This concert took place at The Piano in Christchurch, New Zealand and was livestreamed on 12 May 2022.
Scott’s Terra Nova hut, Cape Evans.
© Dr Fiona Shanhun
Step inside and you will find the building in good health with more than 11,000 artefacts left behind by expeditions of Scott and Shackleton carefully conserved.
That is due to the expert conservation work undertaken by Antarctic Heritage Trust, who in 2007 began a seven year journey to conserve the wooden hut and the artefacts left behind by expeditions of both Scott, and Shackleton.
Join the Trust’s Chief Operations Officer, Francesca Eathorne as she visits the hut, speaks to the conservation experts and hears how they worked within the world’s most extreme environment to save this important piece of Antarctic history.
Follow along at our Antarctic Blog for all the stories from the season.
© Fly on the Wall Images.
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