Following a mandatory two-week period of isolation, the Trust’s On-Ice conservation team deployed to Ross Island, Antarctica in early December.
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. Follow along at our Antarctic Blog for all the stories from the season.