Inspiring the spirit of exploration in the next generation is one of the primary goals of the My Explorer Journal experience on the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s new AR app.
The Creation of My Explorer Journal
September 20, 2021 - Inspiring Explorers™, AR App, Expedition Updates, Alumni, Antarctic Blog, Encourage, News Story, ShareIn this blog, we hear from Anzac Gallate, a member of the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s 2020 Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ to the Antarctic Peninsula, who is the creative visionary behind My Explorer Journal.
My Explorer Journal brings the Antarctic to life
September 6, 2021 - AR App, Expedition Updates, Alumni, Antarctic Blog, Encourage, News Story, ShareIn this blog, check out some of the wonders of Antarctica that are captivating primary school children throughout New Zealand as they embark on a unique, virtual expedition.
Bringing the Past to Life
August 30, 2021 - AR App, Expedition Updates, Alumni, Antarctic Blog, Encourage, News Story, ShareIn this blog, we look at how world-leading technology in the Trust’s new augmented reality (AR) app is bringing historic artefacts from the Antarctic to life in a thoroughly modern way.
World-leading technology in new AR App
July 8, 2021 - AR App, Expedition Updates, Alumni, Antarctic Blog, Encourage, News Story, ShareKrystal Paraone, Studio Manager at Staples VR, talks about the process of bringing this incredible piece of world-leading technology, to life.
As soon as Gus Anning heard that the Trust’s virtual reality experience had been launched, he registered on the website for the VR to visit his children’s school.
The Frozen Wild
December 12, 2019 - Inspiring Explorers™, 2019 Expedition Updates, Alumni, Media Releases, News StoryIn March 2019, Marco de Kretser travelled to the Antarctic Peninsula as a member of Antarctic Heritage Trust’s fourth Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition.
This expedition offered the young explorers a chance to push themselves, to connect with experts, and learn about Antarctica’s history, science, wildlife, and environment, as well as the legacy of exploration in Antarctica.
Marco recorded the sounds of Antarctica’s frozen wild—the ice cracking, the birds shrieking—in order to bring those sounds back to the studio and create music inspired by the brutal, desolate, gargantuan landscapes. Marco wanted to create an interplay between the smaller details and larger saws and strings to mimic the nature of the Antarctic environment.
Here is that music:
Marco also used the sounds he recorded in Antarctica to compose a soundscape, which accompanies a photographic exhibition in collaboration with Alexander Hillary, who was also a member of the expedition. Experience that exhibition here.
Since Anzac’s return from the Antarctic Peninsula he has spent a year creating an explorer journal.
A roundup of Antarctic Heritage Trust alumni news September 2020
A roundup of Antarctic Heritage Trust alumni news September 2021
