Heroic Age

Robert Falcon Scott's British Antarctic Expedition 1910 to 1913 is one of the most famous and stirring stories of world exploration. Although the funds are there to secure the current restoration, we still need more to ensure its future safety.  His hut from the Discovery expedition has yet to be restored as has Borchgrevink's hut at Cape Adare.

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UKAHT (Scott Appeal), Kingcoed Farm, Usk, NP15 1DS, UK.

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"Once lost, they are lost forever. Historic buildings in Antarctica stand as monuments to the dedicated work of their inhabitants and as witnesses to the details of their everyday existence."

Urgent work has already started and following the excavation of a large amount of snow and ice, conservators have found 300 new artefacts which had been buried for decades. The race is on to preserve the hut's structure and fragile artefacts. So far our appeal has raised nearly £3 million. We have secured the funds to secure the fabric of the hut but we still need more to ensure the safety of all the artefacts inside.

"It’s a time warp without parallel. You walk into Scott’s hut and you are transported to the year 1912 in a way that is quite impossible anywhere else in the world. Everything is there.” Sir David Attenborough CH FRS

The UK and NZ Antarctic Heritage Trusts are committed to preserving the historic huts constructed in the early years of the 20th century by the expeditions of the celebrated Antarctic explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and the Norwegian Captain Borchgrevink.

The huts contain a wide variety of equipment and supplies left by the expeditions when they returned to UK. They are thus a unique legacy of the heroic era of Antarctic exploration.

Not surprisingly after so many years the huts and their contents now urgently need an extensive programme of conservation.

This was begun in 2004 by the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, which has operational responsibility for the huts in this area of Antarctica, with the active support of the UK Trust. The bulk of the funding required is being raised in UK, New Zealand, and USA. By May 2006, enough had been raised to secure the future of Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds.

In recent years exceptionally heavy snow falls have threatened Scott's hut at Cape Evans. This underlines the urgency of the project to preserve this and the other huts on Ross Island. The adverse climate and difficult working conditions mean that all such work in Antarctica is expensive. For more details of the conservation project visit the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust site.