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Horseshoe Island

UKAHT

In 2016 Programme Manager Al Fastier was part of a UKAHT four-person team which spent a month on-site at Base Y, Marguerite Bay, Horseshoe Island, undertaking emergency repair work to the building and scheduling building and artefact work for future years.

The scientific base (1955-1960), now under UKAHT’s care, once conducted geology, meteorology and topographic survey research.

Learn more about Horseshoe Island at UKAHT’s website.

Antarctic Heritage Trust

Conservation Collaboration

Conserve, News Story, UKAHT

The Trust’s conservation team had a successful season working collaboratively alongside our partner UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT), with significant strides made in conserving and maintaining two of their historic sites on the Antarctic Peninsula. Al Fastier, Trust Conservation Advisor, and Lizzie Meek, Trust Collections Conservation Manager, played pivotal roles in this endeavour, contributing their expertise to various projects aimed at safeguarding Antarctic heritage.

Antarctic Heritage Trust

2023/24 Conservation Season

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, UKAHT

Lizzie Meek/Antarctic Heritage TrustLizzie Meek/Antarctic Heritage Trust

Peninsula Partnership Update

Antarctic Blog, Share, UKAHT

Over a seven-week period in late 2019, the Trust’s Programme Manager Lizzie Meek, journeyed via South America to the Antarctic Peninsula, to work alongside British conservator Sophie Rowe, surveying the artefact collection inside Bransfield House and the Boatshed, the two remaining 1948 Base A buildings at Port Lockroy.