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“Thrilling and ground-breaking” – Antarctic Heritage Trust reacts to Endurance discovery

March 10, 2022 - Conserve, Media Releases, News Story, Shackleton's Hut
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I Must Visit This Place

May 9, 2022 - Antarctic Blog, News Story, Share

A blog as part of a series written by our 2021/22 Digital Collections Team

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A typical day in the field

February 7, 2022 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Antarctic Blog, Conserve, News Story, Share

Our ninth blog as part of a series written by our 2021/22 On Ice Conservation Team

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Year-Round Conservation Programme

May 29, 2022 - Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project News, Antarctic Blog, Conserve, News Story

For the first time since 2014, we have a team of four wintering over in Antarctica.

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Online Database Update

May 29, 2022 - News Story, Newsletters

Over the last five months the Trust’s team of four specialists have processed an incredible 45,000 images from the Trust’s archives.

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Education Manager Joins Trust

May 29, 2022 - Virtual Reality, News Story

The Trust is delighted Dr Gabriela Roldan has joined as Education Manager for 2022.

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Farewell to Chris Cochran

May 29, 2022 - Alumni, News Story

After 34 years of valued service to the Trust, Chris has taken the decision to step down from the Conservation Design Team in June 2022.

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Explore More in Sir Ed’s Antarctic Hut

May 29, 2022 - Virtual Reality, News Story

The Trust is excited to announce the release of a new version of the Hillary’s Hut – Antarctica Virtual Reality (VR) Experience.

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Greenstone Production: “The Explorer Club”

June 23, 2022 - Inspiring Explorers™, Encourage, Inspiring Explorers' Expeditions™, News Story

In February 2022, three young people from South Auckland, New Zealand summited their first mountain on the Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ In the Footsteps of Hillary, and their exploits were filmed for a children’s television show.

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Summit Reached In the Footsteps of Hillary

May 31, 2022 - Inspiring Explorers™, Encourage, Inspiring Explorers' Expeditions™, News Story

In February 2022, three young people from South Auckland, New Zealand summited their first mountain on the Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ In the Footsteps of Hillary, and their exploits were filmed for a children’s television show.

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Matariki signals the Māori New Year. It is a time Matariki signals the Māori New Year. It is a time of renewal and celebration in New Zealand that begins with the rising of the Matariki star cluster during mid-winter. �Closely connected with the maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar, the reappearance of the Matariki star cluster brings the past year to a close. �Matariki is a time for �remembrance, �celebrating the present and looking to the future.

To celebrate Matariki, Christchurch’s Cathedral Square and surrounding areas will be transformed with a series of innovative lighting installations, projections and illuminated artworks as part of the Tīrama Mai festival. Tīrama Mai, meaning to illuminate or bring light, celebrates our people and our unique local landscape, so make sure you come and check it out!

Antarctic Heritage Trust are contributing to the Antarctic Explorer Zone at the Tīrama Mai Festival. The festival starts today in Christchurch, and runs until 3 July 2022, 5 pm to 11pm.

Tīrama Mai is proudly produced by @christchurchcc
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61 years ago #OnThisDay the Antarctic Treaty enter 61 years ago #OnThisDay the Antarctic Treaty entered into force. �

The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by the twelve countries whose scientists had worked in Antarctica as part of the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. It entered into force two years later in 1961. The total number of Parties to the Treaty is now 54. ��

Since the Treaty came into force it has been recognised as one of the most successful international agreements. The Treaty ensures �that �Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only�, with continued freedom of scientific investigation and cooperation as well as the communication of scientific observations and results from Antarctica.

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Inspiring Explorers™ on TV! Antarctic Heritage t Inspiring Explorers™ on TV!
Antarctic Heritage trust has collaborated with Greenstone TV on a new children’s television series, The Explorer Club. The series introduces iconic New Zealand explorers to kids through hands-on adventures of their own.

Episodes 5 to 7 feature the Trust’s Young Inspiring Explorers™ on our 2021 Worsley Weekend.

“It’s important to step outside your comfort zone to push yourself, learn new things about yourself, and develop qualities that you didn’t know you had. What I like about exploring is how good it makes you feel when you achieve something or get somewhere.” – Young Inspiring Explorer™ Keira

Episode 5, ‘High Seas’, follows Young Inspiring Explorers™ Oscar, Quinn, James and Addie as they learn about the adventures of epic Antarctic explorer Frank Worsley in Akaroa, in the South Island of New Zealand. Episode 6, ‘Lost & Found’ features the Trust’s own General Manager Commercial and Partnerships, Marcus Waters, supporting the team with their map skills to become expert navigators like Frank Worsley. Episode 7, ‘Sink or Swim’ sees the team try their hands at building rafts from scratch to tackle the mighty Akaroa Harbour.

The series premiered on 18 April 2022 on HEIHEI channel, which is available to New Zealand audiences on TVNZ’s on-demand platform, tvnz.co.nz. The series has been produced thanks to the support of New Zealand on Air.

Learn more about the Young Inspiring Explorers™ Worsley Weekend 2021 by visiting our website; link in bio.
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Happy mid-winter! Today we are looking forward to Happy mid-winter! Today we are looking forward to celebrating mid-winter (online!) with our team in #Antarctica who are wintering over with the @antarctica.nz  Scott Base crew. Our team of four conservators are working on a special artefact project over the winter months. Read more about their fascinating work on the Antarctic blog. Link in bio.
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�Antarctic Heritage Trust are contributing to th �Antarctic Heritage Trust are contributing to the Antarctic Explorer Zone at the Tīrama Mai Festival in Christchurch, �running from 24 June to 3 July 2022, �5 pm to 11pm.

Tīrama Mai, meaning to illuminate or bring light, celebrates Matariki, our people and our unique local landscape.

Christchurch’s Cathedral Square and surrounding areas will be transformed with a series of innovative lighting installations, projections and illuminated artworks created by some of Canterbury's best lighting artists and creative minds.

Tīrama Mai is proudly produced by Christchurch City Council. More information can be found in the What's On section of the council's website, www.ccc.govt.nz
If you are in Christchurch, come on down and check it out!

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#OnThisDay in 1928, Roald Amundsen disappeared aft #OnThisDay in 1928, Roald Amundsen disappeared after leaving Tromso, Norway while flying a rescue mission in the Arctic.
��Amundsen joined �Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three other men in the search for ���Nobile and his crew �after their airship 'Italia' had crashed while returning from the North Pole. The French Latham 47 prototype seaplane boarded by Amundsen and used to look for Nobile was thought to have crashed. �One of the seaplane’s floats and other debris were later recovered however, Amundsen’s remains, and those of the men, were not. Nobile and seven companions were rescued weeks later, but eight of his crew were lost.
�📸 Roald Amundsen, Public Domain
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In the latest issue of the 'Explorer' for June 202 In the latest issue of the 'Explorer' for June 2022 the Trust highlights the latest Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ - �In the Footsteps of Hillary.

For this expedition, Antarctic Heritage Trust partnered with Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate in Otara to offer students the chance to walk in the footsteps of their school’s namesake by climbing Mount Ollivier, one of the first peaks Sir Edmund Hillary climbed, in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, Aotearoa New Zealand. �Sir Edmund Hillary described climbing Mount Ollivier as, “My happiest day I have ever spent…my new enthusiasm for the mountains went home with me and gave me little rest.” This was a sentiment echoed by Inspiring Explorers Sarah Magele, Jaylee Savage, and A’aifou Potemani after achieving the same feat.

�Read all about the expedition on our website; link in bio.

�📸 Inspiring Explorers Jaylee Savage and A'aifou Potemani near the Summit of Mt Ollivier. Inspiring Explorers and expedition guide Lydia Brady at the summit. AHT
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Much has been written about the fate of the ponies Much has been written about the fate of the ponies during Scott’s 'Terra Nova' expedition. Scott talked at length in his journals about the ponies’ ability, or lack thereof, to walk across land covered in soft snow, and it was obvious he felt frustrated and distressed by the hardship the ponies suffered.

While our winter on-ice conservation team have been working to conserve artefacts from Scott’s Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans, it was interesting to see that there are slight differences in the design of the snowshoes. Check out our latest conservator blog to read more about the pony snowshoes from Scott's British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' expedition 1910-13.

Read the blog on our website; link in bio.

�📸� Original English-made pony snowshoes.� New Zealand-made mule snowshoes. �Belinda Hager/ �Shannah Rhynard-Geil/ AHT
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A dog hospital, food stores and a ship’s anchor A dog hospital, food stores and a ship’s anchor – these are historic Antarctic artefacts left behind from expeditions of the heroic age and now revealed in 2022. 

A collection of items has been made visible to the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s conservation team this season due to a season of low winter snow accumulation and high snowmelt. Mutton carcasses, the ship 'Aurora’s' second anchor (still with the shackles attached) and a scientific measuring device were among the items revealed.

The items are located around Scott’s Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans - the iconic base associated with Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition (1910–1913) and his ill-fated expediton to the Geographic South Pole. 

Antarctic Heritage Trust lead conservator Jane Hamill says these sightings are really important, as the objects either weren’t recorded or had only rarely been seen over the last 105 years. 

“These items tell us a lot about the activities that went on in and around the explorers’ hut. As a conservator, these are the finds that excite us and reinforce why we do what we do,” says Jane. 

Footage courtesy of Anthony Powell/Antarctica New Zealand
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