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The site features an expedition hut built by Ernest Shackleton and his crew of the Nimrod in 1907 on the western shore of Ross Island. Discovery Point – Also called Hut Point, this location overlooking Winter Quarters Bay is the site of the expedition hut built by the British Antarctic Expedition(1901–04) led by Robert Falcon Scott.
Scott's Hut was prefabricated in England before being brought south by ship. It is rectangular, 50 feet (15 m) long and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide. Insulation was provided by seaweed sewn into a quilt, placed between double-planked inner and outer walls. The roof was a sandwich of three layers of plank and two layers of rubber ply enclosing more ...
The initial Aurora radar and hut, 1959. Arrival Heights Laboratory is a research station in the Antarctic Specially Protected Area of Arrival Heights in Antarctica, around 2 km from McMurdo Station. Its one of the facilities on Hut Point Peninsula along with Scott Base (NZ) and McMurdo Station (US).
Discovery Hut in 2008. It was erected in 1902 by Robert Falcon Scott's 1903-1907 Discovery Expedition. George Vince's Cross. Discovery Hut was designed by Professor Gregory, (appointed as leader of the scientific staff, he resigned before the Discovery headed south) and prefabricated by James Moore of Sydney (cost: £870.14.5d) before being brought south by ship.
The cape was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, who named it the "Skuary" after the birds.Scott's second expedition, the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, built its headquarters here, renaming the cape for Lieutenant Edward Evans, Royal Navy, second in command of the expedition. [1]
A group of explorers from Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, 1907–1909, in the Antarctic hut at Cape Royds. When Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908, having failed to land on King Edward VII Land, he decided to build a hut at Cape Royds, a small promontory twenty-three miles north of Hut Point where Scott had stayed during the Discovery Expedition.
McMurdo Station was the only Antarctic location to hold such a rally. [25] Discovery Hut (1902) at Hut Point Peninsula of Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station lies in the background during cargo operations of the supply ship MV American Tern of Operation Deep Freeze 2007.
The huts included a magnetograph hut, used to measure variations in the south magnetic pole; an absolute magnetic hut, which was used as a reference point for studies in the magnetograph hut; and the transit hut, an astronomical observatory. [1] The most important building at the site is the winter living quarters, known as "Mawson's Hut".