Damoy Hut stands in Dorian Bay on Wiencke Island (64° 49’S, 63°31’W) and is the most modern of Britain’s Historic Sites and Monuments (HSM) in Antarctica. The hut was built in November 1975, and used as an air transit station during the summer for personnel travelling to Rothera, Base R, Britains largest Antarctic Research Station. This enabled essential travel to Rothera during the early summer when sea ice prevented access by ship, thus extending the important summer research season.

A party of two or three people would stay at Damoy hut to organise the transfer of freight to the 400m long ski-way which ran along the spine of the glacier. They used skidoo motor toboggans and were responsible for passing on vital weather reports to the aircraft further south by radio. If the weather prevented flying, personnel on their way south were accommodated in the hut and more often in tents. During the 1994-95 season the British Antarctic Survey started to operate direct flights from the Falkland Islands to Rothera and so the Damoy Air Facility was no longer required and so the facility was closed.