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  • A Hut, also known at the TAE (Trans-Antarctic Expedition) Hut, is located on Pram Point at New Zealand’s Scott Base. It was the first station building built in 1957 at Scott Base, established to support the TAE, and the IGY (International Geophysical Year) of 1957/1958. It was originally intended as a short term base, after which it was to be dismantled, but as the scientific potential of Antarctica was realized the Government decided to continue with Antarctic research indefinitely.
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  • A Hut, also known as the TAE (Trans-Antarctic Expedition) Hut, at New Zealand's Scott Base
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  • A Hut, also known as the TAE (Trans-Antarctic Expedition) Hut, at New Zealand's Scott Base
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  • Sir Edmund Hillary was part of the team that built the hut, and was one of two leaders on the TAE expedition. I was fortunate to get permission from the New Zealand government to photograph Hut A on the day before I left Antarctica. The folks at Scott Base were very helpful in showing me around and letting me do my photography work.
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  • Entrance passage to A Hut
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  • A Hut kitchen
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  • Mess Room. The Hut recently served as something of a small museum, so there are artifacts and displays set up in the side rooms.
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  • Milk delivery, A Hut
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  • A Hut kitchen
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  • View from Hut window
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  • Former Radio Room  recently serving as an exhibition space.
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  • Ice pressure ridges near Scott Base, OB hill in background
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  • Ice pressure ridges
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  • New Zealand's Scott Base located on Pram Point, Ross Island, Antarctica. Castle Rock on upper left.
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  • Sea ice from Scott Base
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  • Sea ice from Scott Base
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  • Weddell seal pup and mother
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  • Sea ice from Scott Base
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  • Castle Rock from Pram Point Pressure Ridges
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  • Ice pressure ridges, Mount Erebus, and incoming storm, from Scott Base
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  • New Zealand members of the 1956-1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which was the first successful expedition to cross Antarctica overland, using modified Ferguson tractors for the 2,150 mile crossing.
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  • Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica. From this hut Shackleton trekked to within 90 miles of the South Pole, before being turned back by lack of food. A round trip trek of about 1,500 miles that made his name as a polar explorer.
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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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  • 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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  • Sewn and patched sail cloth used as a room divider, Discovery Hut.
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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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  • Shackleton's signature on a packing crate box
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Interior of the Discovery Hut showing a sleeping platform and a blubber stove which they used for cooking and heating. Shackleton used the hut during his 1907-1908 Nimrod expedition, Scott used it during his 2nd expedition, the 1911 Terra Nova expedition, and the Ross Sea Party used it during Shackleton's failed attempt to cross the continent during the Endurance Expedition.
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  • Snow mobiles on McMurdo Sound from Hut Point. Probably the biology team returning from Big Razorback Island where they have a Weddell Seal study area. #3 Fish Hut in background.
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  • View from Hut A, New Zealand's Scott Base, Antarctica
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  • Hut Point during a brief but intense snow squall
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  • Hut Point during a brief but intense snow squall
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  • Kevin Johnson in the Fish Hut checking and collecting Pteropods from the conical plankton nets. Pteropods are a key species in the food chain, and are in danger because their shell is showing signs of thinning and erosion caused by increase ocean acidification from excess carbon dioxide being absorbed by the southern ocean.
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  • Wilson's Igloo, Igloo Spur, Cape Crozier, Antarctica. "Our scheme was to build an igloo with rock walls, banked up with snow, using a nine-foot sledge as a ridge beam, and a large sheet of green Willesden canvas as a roof. We had also brought a board to form a lintel over the door. Here with the stove, which was to be fed with blubber from the penguins, we were to have a comfortable warm home whence we would make excursions to the rookery perhaps four miles away. Perhaps we would manage to get our tent down to the rookery itself and do our scientific work there on the spot, leaving our nice hut for a night or more. That is how we planned it."  Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World 1910-1913
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  • Chris Kenry at Castle Rock. Temperature was about 10 deg F, but below zero with a steady Hut Point wind out of the south.
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  • View from Hut A at New Zealand's Scott Base of the pressure ridges on the sea ice.
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  • How to describe McMurdo Station. It’s the largest station in Antarctica by far, a sprawling place, functional and utilitarian, a work in progress since its beginnings before the 1957-1958 IGY. And it has character. As a photographer I'm drawn to the older structures, the early buildings housing Cosray and building 137, the quonset huts, and others like the BFC, FEMC shops and Paint Barn. These places have character, part of it is architectural, and part is how these utilitarian shells have been adapted into unique living and work spaces by the people who use them.
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