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Cape Evans

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Cape Evans Antarctica, site of the Terra Nova Hut, built and used by Scott during the 1911-1913 Terra Nova expedition.

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  • An amazing and painful snowmobile trip out to Cape Evans, with 20-40 knot winds blowing down the slopes of Erebus turning our route into occasional near white out conditions. The temperature with wind chill was in the minus 30's F. Add to that the wind chill of driving at 40 kph. Ok. Need I say more? It was a very uncomfortable ride, but we suffered through the 1+ hr ride to Cape Evans.
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  • Visually it was stunning, the sun lit the snow to a golden color and the drift tore down 12,000 foot Erebus and across the sea ice creating small tornadoes and dense clouds of snow that would occasionally blot out all but the nearest one or two flagged poles marking the route. At times the blown snow stayed at ground level, blowing hard from right to left across our route, and it was so thick that I couldn’t see the ground, rather it felt like I was crossing a fast flowing river of snow. It was disorienting, and if not for the flagged poles it would be easy to loose direction.
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  • Mike Lucibella and Ralph Maestas stopping for a safety check in route to Scott's Terra Nova Hut at Cape Evans. We stopped frequently to check on each other, adding hand warmers to our gloves to keep fingers from freezing, and covering any exposed skin on our faces. I shot a few photographs on the way over, but because of the low temperatures my camera batteries died within 5 minutes of putting them in the camera.
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  • Inaccessible Island on route to Cape Evans
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  • Terra Nova Hut on Nov 3rd, 2015 as we arrive at Cape Evans and gather our gear to cross the area where the sea ice meets the fast ice attached to the shore. Because of tidal action this area can form hidden crevasses. I was feeling an urgent need to get out of the wind blasting down Erebus, which was driving the wind chill temperature extremely low.
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  • Mount Erebus from Windvane Hill, Cape Evans
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  • Cape Evans hut.
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  • Galley and mess deck table near the hut entrance.
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  • Hut entrance, mess deck table, galley on left.
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  • Wardroom dining area
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  • Wardroom table, and stove
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  • Wardroom table and Tenements Bunks, where Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Oats, Meares and Atkinson slept.
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  • Biology bench
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  • Scott's Cape Evans Hut, Biologist's Bench
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  • Physics Bench
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  • Physics bench detail
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  • Nelson and Day's bunks
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  • Scott's Cape Evans Hut
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  • Wright and Simpson's bunks
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  • Physics Laboratory bench
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  • Ponting's darkroom
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  • Geologists Debenham and Taylor bunks
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  • Work Bench.
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  • Scott's Cape Evans Hut
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  • Captain R.F. Scott's sleeping area.
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  • Evans and Wilson's beds
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  • Emperor Penguin feet
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  • Meteorology lab gear
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  • Scott's Cape Evans Hut
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  • Crampons
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  • The stables built onto the side of the hut where the ponys and mules were housed.
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  • Pony feed bag in stable
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  • Bicycle in stable, I'd like to hear more about how this bicycle was used and how far they rode it.
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  • Elaine Hood, my escort to Cape Evans on the third visit.
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  • Terra Nova Hut during my third visit out to Cape Evans. A cake walk compared to the first vist, with a nice calm day and temps in the 20's.
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  • The Aurora anchor, at Cape Evans. During Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition the Ross Sea Party was tasked with laying depots for Shackleton’s expected trans-antarctic trek. The depot's were laid at great cost to the men, but Shackleton's trek never happened because Shackleton's ship the Endurance was caught and crushed in the sea ice. The cable broke on this anchor during a storm, blowing the Aurora out to sea and stranding the Ross Sea Party at Cape Evan for almost 2 years. Three men were lost during that time, and a cross was erected for these lost men.
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  • Stores on the ramp above the hut. Royal Society Range on distant shore of McMurdo Sound.
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  • Abandoned stores in the ramp above the hut. Barne Glacier in background.
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  • 100 year old cordage
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  • Looks like an old can of paint
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  • Terra Nova Hut
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  • The famous blue pill, all-in-one remedy for any sailor ailment.
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  • Lizzie Meek and the New Zealand Heritage Trust at work in the hut. They were taking an inventory of the hut contents and taking measurements of the hut and making minor repairs. The huts are maintained as heritage sites and are regularly visited to ensure the buildings are stable and weather tight.
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  • Pictured is George Murray Levick’s jotted notes in a photo exposure guide booklet, recently found buried in the ice at Cape Evans. It’s shown to me here by Lizzie Meek, program artifacts manager at the Antarctic Heritage Trust. Touching artifacts in the huts is strictly off limits, and the only person who could be holding this notebook is Lizzie, as she was returning it to the hut as an artifact of Scott’s 1911-1914 Terra Nova expedition. Levick was a photographer and surgeon with the Eastern Party, which became the Northern Party when they discovered Amundsen at the Bay of Whales, embarking on his quest to be the first to the South Pole. Because of Amundsen’s presence Levick’s team looked for other quarters to carry out their program. When the relief ship failed to pick them up they endured one of the most difficult over winters in Antarctic history in an ice cave on Inexpressible Island, surviving on Weddell Seals, burning blubber for light and warmth.
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  • Scott's Cape Evans Hut
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  • Tenaments Bunks, where Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Oats, Meares and  Atkinson slept.
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  • Shelf above Henry Bowers bunk, and what looks like the hat he wore in several photos I've seen.
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  • Nelson and Day's bunks
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  • Wall made of packing crates.
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  • Cape Evans hut and Windvane hill on December 7, 2015.
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