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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.
The 2021-22 On-Ice team, left to right, Conor Tulloch, Al Fastier, Nicola Stewart, John Taylor, Belinda Hager, Jane Hamill, and Zac Bennett.
© Anthony Powell
They will undertake our annual conservation programme at the historic explorer bases of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Edmund Hillary that are under the Trust’s care.
The team of seven, led by Al Fastier, the Trust’s Programme Manager Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project, will spend the next two months addressing some of the more complicated conservation issues facing the sites and continue the programme of maintenance and monitoring as part of our ongoing care of the sites.
For the first time since 2014, four of the conservators will stay on and winter-over to continue the artefact conservation programme.
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