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Archive for category: Virtual Reality

Antarctica comes to New Zealand’s National Museum

August 29, 2025 - The Explorer August 2025, Virtual Reality, Encourage, News Story, Share

Audiences in Wellington, New Zealand were given the chance to step inside Scott’s Discovery hut at Te Papa hosted by the Trust.

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Spirit of Antarctica Sets Sail

December 16, 2025 - Inspiring Explorersâ„¢, Virtual Reality, Encourage, News Story

Partnership between Antarctic Heritage Trust and Spirit of Adventure Trust has given South Auckland students a unique journey of discovery.

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Hillary’s Hut Virtual Reality Reaches the Chatham Islands

December 16, 2025 - Inspiring Explorersâ„¢, Virtual Reality, Encourage, Hillary's Hut, News Story, Share

In October, the Trust took its virtual reality experience of Hillary’s Hut to the remote community of Chatham Islands.

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Virtual Visits to Antarctica

April 7, 2025 - Virtual Reality, News Story

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.

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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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Cutting-edge Discovery Hut VR Experience Launched

September 27, 2024 - Virtual Reality, News Story, Share

On 15 August, the Trust’s Patron-in-chief, Her Excellency The Rt Hon Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand launched Scott’s ‘Discovery’ Hut Virtual Reality Experience at an event at Government House.

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Education Programme Update

May 30, 2024 - Virtual Reality, Encourage, News Story

The Trust’s Inspiring Explorers™ Education team had another productive year in 2023, touring our education programme and fully immersive virtual reality (VR) experience of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic hut.

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‘Cutting-edge Technology’ Showcases Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

August 15, 2024 - Virtual Reality, Media Releases, News Story

The Antarctic Heritage Trust, in collaboration with Auckland-based virtual reality tech company StaplesVR, is launching the first-ever educational virtual reality experience of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Hut and is bringing it to schools and communities across Aotearoa.

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Explore Sir Ed’s hut in 2023

May 1, 2023 - Virtual Reality, News Story, Share

The Trust continues to tour our ground breaking, fully immersive virtual reality (VR) experience of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic hut to schools, community venues and events around New Zealand

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Life at the South Pole today gives perspective on Antarctica’s heroic-era explorers

July 25, 2022 - Inspiring Explorersâ„¢ Blog, Virtual Reality, Antarctic Blog

Life at the South Pole today gives perspective on Antarctica’s heroic-era explorers, by Sarah Bouckoms

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