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Listing ID: 1140
Title: Antarctic Conservation Blog
Description: This blog describes what it's like to spend time in Antarctica conserving artefacts from the explorer's hut left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1908.
Category: Regional : Antarctica
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listed on: June 25, 2008 07:22:36 PM
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Recent Posts:
| Christmas comes to Scott Base - Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:08:14 +0000 |
| Some new inhabitants of Scott Base © Antarctic Heritage TrustMany families around the world have a set of special Christmas traditions, and the Scott Base family is certainly no exception. Around the middle of December, fairy lights and garlands start to appear around the base, Christmas trees get decorated in the lounge, [...] |
| Simple solutions to complex problems - Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:01:50 +0000 |
| Scott’s Terra Nova hut has been under threat from the buildup of snow and ice pressing against it. The building was slowly being engulfed by a mini glacier forming behind it.The Terra Nova hut © Antarctic Heritage TrustUsing shovels and wheel barrows the Trust’s staff would spend up to a week each [...] |
| The never ending saga of the stove - part 2 - Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:49:05 +0000 |
| So, after making up a new batch of tannic acid, testing this on a stove tray back in the lab and finding that it worked great guns, we thought we had it nutted out. Not so.Testing the new batch of tannic acid on the stove © Antarctic Heritage TrustProblem three - the [...] |