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Archive for category: Conserve

Expanded Protection for New Zealand’s First Buildings in Antarctica

April 7, 2025 - Conserve, News Story

Two more original buildings at New Zealand’s Scott Base have gained the highest level of protection and will be cared for by the Trust.

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Antarctic Honours

April 7, 2025 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Conserve, News Story

Al’s work to save the historic huts was acknowledged in the New Year Honours list, when he and polar photographer Colin Monteath were each awarded the New Zealand Antarctic Medal.

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Historic Instruments Donated

April 7, 2025 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Conserve, News Story

Historic geomagnetic instruments which began to measure the Earth’s magnetic field from Antarctica in the 1950s have been donated to the Trust by GNS Science.

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Blaiklock Island

April 7, 2025 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Conserve, News Story

Our colleagues at the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust have completed one of their most ambitious conservation projects yet, at Blaiklock Island Refuge – a hut frozen in time in Marguerite Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Summer Conservation Season

April 7, 2025 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Conserve, News Story

The Trust’s team began with conservation tasks in Hillary’s TAE/IGY hut and conservation treatment of artefacts while at New Zealand’s Scott Base, before deploying to Shackleton’s hut at Cape Royds.

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Historic Artefact Returns Home

April 7, 2025 - Conserve, Inspiring Explorers Expeditions™, News Story

The eight young explorers were tasked with returning a classic book to the icy continent and hoped conditions would permit them to get to the base where heroic era explorers had read it, Scott’s Discovery hut at Hut Point on Ross Island.

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Christmas at Cape Royds

January 10, 2023 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Antarctic Blog, Conserve, News Story, Share
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2023/24 Summer Conservation Season – Ross Island

May 30, 2024 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Conserve, Hillary's Hut, News Story, Scott's Hut, Cape Evans, Scott's Hut, Hut Point, Shackleton's Hut

The Trust’s On-Ice Conservation team spent thirteen weeks in Antarctica this season, from early November until late January, undertaking an intensive digital data capture project, followed by the annual conservation programme at the historic Ross Island explorer bases of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Sir Edmund Hillary.

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Success for Remote Conservation Project

June 26, 2025 - Conserve, News Story, UKAHT

An ambitious project in a particularly challenging environment has succeeded thanks to the long-term partnership between two organisations on opposite sides of the globe.

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Immersive Antarctica: Virtual reality tour brings Antarctic exploration to the UK

May 8, 2025 - Virtual Reality, Media Releases, News Story, Share, UKAHT

New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZAHT) and UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) toured England and Scotland for the first time with two exciting immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences that use cutting-edge digital technologies to transform how the British public can learn about Antarctica’s rich history of science and exploration.

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