Antarctic Conservation Season Update June 2022
The 2021-22 summer Antarctic season saw a seven-person conservation team spend nearly two months working on an extended monitoring and maintenance programme at the Ross Island explorer bases of Robert Falcon Scott at Cape Evans and Hut Point, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s base at Cape Royds, and Sir Edmund Hillary’s hut at Pram Point.
Read more on our season’s conservation projects at the links below:
Year-Round Conservation Programme
Scott’s Terra Nova hut
Protecting and Repatriating Artefacts at Scott’s ‘Terra Nova’ hut
Historic Antarctic Artefacts Discovered
Scott’s Discovery hut
Preventing Blubber Ooze at Scott’s ‘Discovery’ Hut
Shackleton’s Nimrod hut
Conservator Jane Hamill documents the dog hospital artefacts. © Antarctica New Zealand/Anthony Powell
