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Archive for category: Conserve

RSHRP 2019-2020 Season

May 9, 2020 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Conserve, News Story

A team of four travelled to Ross Island in November to implement the annual monitoring and maintenance programme for the expedition bases.

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Shackleton’s Whisky

January 31, 2010 - Famous Discoveries, News Story, Shackleton's Hut

In January 2010 our conservators found five crates encased in ice under Shackleton’s 1908 Antarctic base – three contained Mackinlay’s whisky and two contained brandy.

The three whisky crates were excavated and one crate was flown to New Zealand to be carefully thawed by the Trust in a purpose-built environment and public gallery at Canterbury Museum. Eleven bottles of the 114-year old whisky were revealed, still sheathed in their paper and straw packaging.

After delicate conservation, the then owner of Whyte & Mackay (which owns the Mackinlay brand), flew to New Zealand to see the extraordinary find. Under permit from the New Zealand Government, he transported three bottles to Scotland on his private jet for scientific analysis by Whyte & Mackay and The Scotch Whisky Research Institute.

In a unique opportunity for the whisky world, the bottles were subjected to sensory and chemical analysis to establish the flavour and composition of a product manufactured a century earlier. In April 2011, Whyte & Mackay’s master blender, Richard Paterson, successfully recreated an exact replica of the century-old whisky and Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky was born.

Artefact Programme Manager Lizzie Meek working on the straw bottle covers at Canterbury MuseumAntarctic Heritage Trust

Artefact Programme Manager Lizzie Meek working on the straw bottle covers at Canterbury Museum


Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky Antarctic Heritage Trust

Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky

The whisky proved so popular that in late 2012, a second edition, ‘The Journey’, was released. Both editions have resulted in a substantial donation to the Trust’s conservation work in Antarctica.

The National Geographic Channel’s Expedition Whisky documentary and author Neville Peat’s excellent book, Shackleton’s Whisky, have both recorded the whisky’s journey from obscurity to world-wide attention. Meanwhile, whisky lovers the world over are enjoying the replica whisky. They are in good company. The whisky has been gifted to, and by, heads of state and royalty.

In January 2013, the Shackleton whisky story came full circle with New Zealand Prime Minister the Rt Hon. John Key repatriating the three bottles of original whisky to the Trust’s staff in Antarctica. The final stage in a remarkable journey for the world’s best aged and travelled whisky was the return of the original crates to Ernest Shackleton’s 1908 base at Cape Royds.

Shackleton’s Nimrod hut sits on an ice-free area of rock at Cape Royds, next to Pony Lake.Antarctic Heritage Trust

Shackleton’s Nimrod hut sits on an ice-free area of rock at Cape Royds, next to Pony Lake.

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An Update from Port Lockroy

November 15, 2018 - Antarctic Blog, Conserve, UKAHT

Trust Programme Manager Al Fastier joined the UKAHT Port Lockroy Conservation Team under the Trust’s partnership to share its conservation knowledge and expertise developed during the Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project. The team will spend five weeks at Port Lockroy and will undertake emergency repairs, do a full architectural survey, install solar power and schedule future conservation work.

The historic Base A, also known as Bransfield House, was built at Port Lockroy in 1944 as part of Operation Tabarin, a secret war time operation to establish a permanently occupied British base in Antarctica. The base was first conserved in 1996 and is now a living museum, a post office and a shop selling Antarctic souvenirs, which helps to fund the conservation project.

Base A at Port LockroyUKAHT

Base A at Port Lockroy

Challenges include living on a small 3 square acre island, working within a Gentoo penguin colony, snow and, at times, rain. Al said it is a fantastic location to work, with this historic hut being surrounded by snowcapped mountains rising steeply from the sea and with the hut that is rich in artefacts giving the site a real spirit of place and a strong connection to the past.

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Peninsula Partnership Update

May 9, 2020 - Antarctic Blog, Share, UKAHT

Over a seven-week period in late 2019, the Trust’s Programme Manager Lizzie Meek, journeyed via South America to the Antarctic Peninsula, to work alongside British conservator Sophie Rowe, surveying the artefact collection inside Bransfield House and the Boatshed, the two remaining 1948 Base A buildings at Port Lockroy.

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Conservation Assessment – Context and Aims

March 4, 2020 - Antarctic Blog, Share, UKAHT

‘What on earth are you doing here?’ asked a surprised friend of mine who arrived at Port Lockroy as a tourship safety guide, and bumped into me in the hallway of Bransfield House.

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Antarctic Twitching

February 24, 2020 - Antarctic Blog, Share, UKAHT

It seems like the more time you spend observing wildlife, the more there is to observe and the more interesting you find them.

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Cape Adare Camp Completed

May 9, 2020 - Conserve, Uncategorized

The Trust’s objective this season was to position and secure the required conservation equipment on site at Cape Adare to allow the conservation of Borchgrevink’s 1898 British Antarctic Expedition huts to be undertaken.

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Working in the Field

February 17, 2020 - Antarctic Blog, Share, UKAHT

Working for hours at a time in sub-zero temperatures when you are cataloguing means you move very little.

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Tutti Frutti

February 12, 2020 - Antarctic Blog, Share, UKAHT

My experience of the Antarctic Expedition ships we travelled on, is that they go to great lengths to keep their guests happy and healthy. The hospitality on board from the crew is often exceptional, and I was struck by the enjoyment and creativity they brought to their work.

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Logistics and Delays

February 6, 2020 - Antarctic Blog, Share, UKAHT

Sometimes getting to Antarctica is as simple as getting on a plane in New Zealand and stepping off 5 hours later into sub zero temperatures. This year’s work expedition to Port Lockroy, (the British base on the Antarctic Peninsula managed by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust) was a whole other story.

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Check out the interactive technology in our new ap Check out the interactive technology in our new app. Designed for school-aged explorers, use My Explorer Journal to watch augmented reality and 360° videos come to life off the page by scanning codes throughout the booklet! 

Jam-packed full of fascinating Antarctic history, brave first explorers, and unique wildlife, log your own explorer journal entries as you navigate the icy continent right from your own home.

The app is available to download for free from Google Play or the App Store.

Download the My Explorer Journal printable PDF for free on our website nzaht.org

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#ARapp #applaunch #ar #AntarcticApp  #AntarcticJournal #3Dartefacts #Artefacts #CapeAdare #inspire #explore #discover #conserve #antarctica #ice #polarhistory #shackleton #hillary #scott
#OnThisDay in 1873 Shackleton’s right-hand man, #OnThisDay in 1873 Shackleton’s right-hand man, Frank Wild was born. Wild was a key member of five Antarctic expeditions led by Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott and Douglas Mawson. He was awarded the polar medal with four bars, making him the most decorated polar explorer of the heroic age of exploration.

One of Wild’s most well know adventures took place on Elephant Island, where he remained in command of the Endurance crew while Shackleton and five others made the incredible journey to South Georgia Island to seek rescue at the Whaling Station. Each man in his diary wrote of great admiration for Wild. Without any doubt, each man stranded on Elephant Island owed their life to him and his ability to inspire during their isolation.

📸 Frank Wild, National Library of Australia
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#OnThisDay in 1904 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and #OnThisDay in 1904 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Emily Mary Dorman were married at Christchurch, Westminster, London.

Shackleton first met Emily, one of his sister's friends, in the summer of 1897. Emily was 29 years old, six years his senior. Shackleton took an instant liking to Emily and the relationship blossomed with shared interests in gardening and poetry. Shackleton was in love for the first time, so to improve his standing with Emily, Shackleton left his position as third officer on the Welsh Shire Line and took a position with the Union Castle Line in 1899. The new role meant Shackleton could prove to Emily's father that her welfare was in safe hands and he could come home every two months instead of long and undetermined absences.

In February 1900, Shackleton celebrated his 26th birthday. With that milestone came the realisation that 10 years of hard labour at sea had lost its appeal. Shackleton desired a cause which would stimulate his interests, make a fortune and secure a respectable future with Emily. That March, Shackleton was on his second trooping voyage to South Africa when he met Lieutenant Cedric Longstaff, whose father, Llewellyn, was the principal benefactor of the National Antarctic 'Discovery' Expedition 1901-03. Through this connection, Shackleton saw the chance to join the Antarctic venture, cultivate his interest in exploration and somehow make a name for himself so he could marry Emily. Going to the ends of the earth to impress her was a gesture later explained by his daughter Cecily as "he was going to lay the world at her feet".

After Shackleton was invalided home from the expedition due to falling ill, Emily agreed to marry him. Shackleton wrote to Emily, "I am so happy dearest thinking about all the times which are to be in the future...we do want to settle down and have our own house at last after all these years of waiting".

Shackleton's proposition of settling down with Emily changed when he embarked on the idea of spending the next winter in Antarctica as part of his British Antarctic 'Nimrod Expedition' 1907-09.

📸 Emily Dorman (Lady Shackelton), Public Domain.
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#OnThisDay in 1887, Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KC #OnThisDay in 1887, Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KCB, OBE, MC, Canadian physicist & polar explorer, was born in Toronto, Canada. Wright was an appointed scientific staff member as part of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910-13.

Born and educated in Canada, Wright went on to study at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, England after he won a scholarship for postgraduate study. In Cambridge he met Douglas Mawson, who had just returned from Shackleton's British Antarctica 'Nimrod' Expedition 1907-09. Hereafter, Wright applied for Scott's second Antarctic expedition. When his application was rejected Wright walked an astonishing 65 miles from Cambridge to London to see Scott in person at which point he was accepted as Physicist and Glaciologist. 

In 'Scott's Last Expedition', published by the Natural History Museum, Scott refers to Wright as "one of the greatest successes... he is very thorough and absolutely ready for anything". Wright carried out numerous experiments and observations on the physics of ice and snow, gravity, the aurora and magnetism. He was also part of a four man team who mapped the western mountains of Victoria Land and made geological observations. Unfortunately for Wright, at the time, he was part of the first support party sent back on the 22nd of December 1911 from Scott's Southern Journey. However, almost a year later, in November 1912, he was the one who noticed "a small object projecting above the surface", which turned out to be the tip of a tent, the last camp of Scott, Bowers and Wilson.

Wright visited and worked in Antarctica again in 1960-61 during the 50th anniversary of Scott's expedition. While in Antarctica he refused to talk about Scott's expedition. 

📸Charles Seymour Wright 1912, Photographer Herbert Ponting, Public Domain.
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#OnThisDay in 1916, SY Aurora arrived back in Dune #OnThisDay in 1916, SY Aurora arrived back in Dunedin, New Zealand, after breaking away from its mooring chains during a storm the previous year. As a result, Aurora had been stuck fast in the sea ice and taken out into McMurdo Sound where she drifted helplessly in the pack. Unfortunately, she was laden with stores and provisions that were badly needed by the Ross Sea Shore Party, a critical component of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic 'Endurance' Expedition 1914-17. 

Aurora was repaired and refitted by December 1916, just in time for the return of Shackleton who sailed alongside the crew for McMurdo Sound. When the men arrived in Antarctica Shackleton went ashore at Cape Royds with a party to look for any records possibly left in the hut. A letter was found stating that the Ross Sea Party was housed at Cape Evans. Of the ten members left behind when the Aurora first broke away, only seven had survived.

📸 Aurora berthed in Sydney Harbour loading stores for the Ross Sea Party, December 1914. William Hall Studio. Australian National Maritime Museum Collection, gift from Mr and Mrs Glassford.

#inspire #explore #discover #conserve #Antarctica #shackleton #rossseaparty #aurora #endurance
#OnThisDay in 1904, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's #OnThisDay in 1904, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition ship 'Discovery' arrived back in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Scott's National Antarctic 'Discovery' Expedition 1901-04 was a joint initiative between The Royal Geographical Society and The Royal Society. It was the second expedition to winter over on the Antarctic continent, following Carston Borchgrevink's Southern Cross Expedition 1899-1900. In addition, it was the first to carry out significant exploration, including a ‘furthest south’ record of 82º16’ S, and the first to carry out comprehensive scientific observations in the field of meteorology, geology, glaciology, botany, marine biology and cartography.

You can read more about the history of Scott's first Antarctic expedition on our website, nzaht.org.

📸 Discovery Hut, the expedition base located at Hut Point, with the ship Discovery in the background. Canterbury Museum.

#OTD #inspire #explore #discover #conserve #Antarctica #RobertFalconScott #discovery
If you're in Mt Cook this Easter break this is you If you're in Mt Cook this Easter break this is your chance to step inside Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic Hut with Antarctic Heritage Trust’s fully immersive virtual reality (VR) experience. 

We will be at The Hermitage Hotel on Saturday 3 April and Sunday 4 April between 9 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 5pm.

Bookings are essential for the 10 minute VR experience. Please come and see the AHT team at the Hermitage to make a booking.

Hillary’s Hut was the first building erected at New Zealand’s Scott Base in Antarctica in 1957. Join us and step inside the five rooms of Sir Ed’s Antarctic hut and find out what life was like living in the world’s most extreme environment as these men furthered science and exploration.

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📸 VR experience © AHT.
#OnThisDay in 1900, Borchgrevink's British Antarct #OnThisDay in 1900, Borchgrevink's British Antarctic 'Southern Cross' Expedition party returned to New Zealand from Antarctica after two years.

Borchgrevink’s party of 10 men was funded by magazine magnate Sir George Newnes. The aim of the expedition was to collect scientific data and study wildlife, be the first team to intentionally overwinter on the continent and explore the continent’s interior. Borchgrevink also wanted to investigate the commercial possibilities of the region, focusing on whaling, mineral prospecting and the mining of penguin guano for fertiliser.

Many of the expedition’s scientific records were lost but they did achieve some exceptional ‘firsts’, for example, they were the first to erect a building in Antarctica, winter over, and use dogs, sledges and skis for travel over land and sea ice. Expedition members Bernacchi and Colbeck also produced a detailed map of the area that was used by later expeditions. Finally, under Bernacchi’s leadership, the first full year of weather readings was recorded. Their data set the baseline for Antarctic climate science.

Read more about Borchgrevink's expedition on @canterburymuseum's online exhibition Breaking the Ice: The First Year in Antarctica - https://breakingtheice.canterburymuseum.com/

📸 The Southern Cross expedition members pictured just before spending the first winter on the Antarctic continent, 1899. Canterbury Museum

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#OnThisDay in 1912, Scott, Wilson and Bowers, the #OnThisDay in 1912, Scott, Wilson and Bowers, the remaining three members of Scott's Polar Party wrote their final letters. Alongside these letters to loved ones, all members of the Polar Party, apart from Evans, had kept private journals. Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last journal has been on permanent display since 1914 and is now on display at the British Library. Scott's final sentence, ‘for God’s sake look after our people’ was reiterated in his last message to the nation.

Scott's Polar Party reached the South Pole 17 January 1912, 34 days after Amundsen and his Norwegian party. During the journey home Edgar Evans suffered a fatal concussion and passed away 17 February. Thereafter, in March, Scott’s diary records the heroic end of Captain Lawrence 'Titus' Oates who, stricken with frostbite, walked out from the camp to his death.

For Scott and his remaining men, a successful march home depended on the decisions made and the depots laid months prior to the expedition. On 21 March, Wilson and Bowers planned to set off for the next depot, in the hope that they could bring food and fuel back to Scott, who lay in the tent nursing his right foot. However, according to Scott a severe storm raged throughout their final nine days. The distance to One Ton Depot (20.4 km) was now an irrelevancy, with the men sharing what little food was left as they waited out the inevitable. 

📸 Snow Cairn erected over the final resting place of Scott, Wilson and Bowers, Antarctica New Zealand Pictorial Collection.

#OTD #inspire #explore #discover #conserve #Antarctica #RobertFalconScott #terranova #southpole
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