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Hillary’s Hut (TAE/IGY) Ice Melter gets the Deluxe Dulux Treatment
December 23, 2020
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by Comms
Frozen Rigging, Antarctica Bound
December 23, 2020
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by Comms
Antarctic Conservation Season Update
Despite the ramifications of Covid-19, our conservation team have successfully completed the essential monitoring and maintenance programme at the Ross Island historic huts in November and December 2020, thanks to the support of Antarctica New Zealand, in what has been an extremely challenging year for their operations.
December 13, 2020
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by Comms
Antarctic Conservation Season Update September 2020
The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted the Trust’s Antarctic operations for the upcoming 2020-2021 season.
September 6, 2020
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by Comms
Sharing the First Stories
Antarctic Heritage Trust is excited to have a new creative project being developed using augmented reality (AR).
May 9, 2020
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by Comms
RSHRP 2019-2020 Season
A team of four travelled to Ross Island in November to implement the annual monitoring and maintenance programme for the expedition bases.
May 9, 2020
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by Comms
Peninsula Partnership Update
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.
May 9, 2020
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by Comms
Cape Adare Camp Completed
The Trust’s objective this season was to position and secure the required conservation equipment on site at Cape Adare to allow the conservation of Borchgrevink’s 1898 British Antarctic Expedition huts to be undertaken.
May 9, 2020
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by Comms
Conservation Assessment – Context and Aims
‘What on earth are you doing here?’ asked a surprised friend of mine who arrived at Port Lockroy as a tourship safety guide, and bumped into me in the hallway of Bransfield House.
March 4, 2020
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by Comms
Antarctic Twitching
It seems like the more time you spend observing wildlife, the more there is to observe and the more interesting you find them.
February 24, 2020
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by Comms
Working in the Field
Working for hours at a time in sub-zero temperatures when you are cataloguing means you move very little.
February 17, 2020
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by Comms
Tutti Frutti
My experience of the Antarctic Expedition ships we travelled on, is that they go to great lengths to keep their guests happy and healthy. The hospitality on board from the crew is often exceptional, and I was struck by the enjoyment and creativity they brought to their work.
February 12, 2020
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by Comms
Logistics and Delays
Sometimes getting to Antarctica is as simple as getting on a plane in New Zealand and stepping off 5 hours later into sub zero temperatures. This year’s work expedition to Port Lockroy, (the British base on the Antarctic Peninsula managed by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust) was a whole other story.
February 6, 2020
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by Comms
Virtual Reality Allows Immersive Access in Antarctica
May 8, 2019
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by Comms
Shackleton’s 111-year-old Beer Barrel
Antarctic Heritage Trust has returned a carefully reconstructed beer barrel to the Antarctic hut that…
January 11, 2019
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by Comms
An Update from Port Lockroy
Trust Programme Manager Al Fastier joined the UKAHT Port Lockroy Conservation Team under the Trust’s partnership to share its conservation knowledge and expertise developed during the Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project.
November 15, 2018
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by Comms
Prime Minister Launches ‘Hillary’s Antarctica’
The Trust was honoured to have New Zealand Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern launch a new book, ‘Hillary’s Antarctica’, at an event in the New Zealand Parliament Grand Hall in late October.
November 1, 2018
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by Comms
Conserving Stonington Stories
“Like seeing Antarctica for the first time” is how Lizzie Meek (Programme Manager – Artefacts) described her experience at Stonington Island on the Antarctic Peninsula.
July 4, 2018
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by Comms
Raising the Roof
Antarctic Heritage Trust has finished the last major job of saving Sir Edmund Hillary’s hut at Scott…
March 27, 2018
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by Comms
Stunning Stonington
The Trust is delighted to have our team assisting UKAHT on the Antarctic Peninsula as part of the new multi-year agreement.
March 26, 2018
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by Comms
Final Touches go on Sir Ed’s Antarctic Hut
The Trust raised nearly a million dollars to save the hut, also known as the TAE/IGY Hut, which was built…
December 19, 2017
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by Comms
Century-old Fruitcake
Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators found a 100 year old fruit cake among the artefacts from Cape…
August 10, 2017
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by Comms
Dr Edward Wilson Watercolour
New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has discovered an almost perfectly preserved 118 year old watercolour painting among penguin-excrement, dust and mould covered papers found in an historic hut at Cape Adare, Antarctica.
June 12, 2017
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by Comms
Hillary’s Hut Wins Award
We are delighted to have won the International category of the 31st annual Dulux Colour Awards for Hillary's…
May 12, 2017
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by Comms
Saving Hillary’s Hut
On Friday 20 January 2017 the residents of New Zealand's Scott Base celebrated the base’s 60 year anniversary…
March 19, 2017
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by Comms
Ross Sea Party Photos
Our conservation specialists, working in expedition photographer Herbert Ponting's darkroom at Scott's…
January 15, 2016
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by Comms
Prime Minister Launches Conservation Plan
Today, New Zealand Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key has launched the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Conservation…
March 17, 2015
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by Comms
Hillary Tractor Secured in Public Private Partnership
A Ferguson tractor, used by Sir Edmund Hillary’s party at the newly-constructed Scott Base during the…
March 13, 2015
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by Comms
Levick’s Notebook
Our conservators discovered a photographer’s notebook left behind a century ago at Captain Scott’s last expedition base, Cape Evans.
October 23, 2014
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by Comms
Shackleton’s Whisky
In January 2010 our conservators found five crates encased in ice under Shackleton's 1908 Antarctic base…
January 31, 2010
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by Comms
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