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

Conserving Shackleton’s Venesta Cases