£25 will enable the conservation of a food item
£100 will enable the cleaning and conservation of textiles such as Scott’s sleeping bag or the snowshoes worn by Oates’ ponies
£1000 will pay for a section of the hut to be protected against the weather for another 100 years
Want to find other parts of the world with Antarctic connections?
See the Low Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer from 'antarctic-circle.org'.
Points of Antarctic interest marked on googlemaps for Britain, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, and North America
Work is now well underway at Scott's hut at Cape Evans. Following excavation of large amounts of snow and ice, conservators found 300 new artefacts which had been buried for decades.
"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
