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.
The Trusts have a long history of successful partnership, helping each other to undertake cold-climate heritage conservation work in one of the world’s most extreme environments.
A Supporter Story by Natalie Hewit – ‘Endurance’ film maker, who was invited to document the search for Shackleton’s ship Endurance for a feature documentary for National Geographic.
The Trust is delighted to announce three new staff appointments.
Across the Atlantic is directed by Te Aroha Devon, one of 22 young explorers on the expedition with climber Sam West and data scientist Jenny Sahng, who are featured in the film. The expedition honoured the centenary of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final expedition, the Quest, which journeyed to South Georgia and marked the end of the heroic-era of Antarctic exploration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This was the first time the Trust has taken young explorers to experience the legendary Antarctic explorers’ bases and understand the Trust’s conservation of them.
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