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Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. ... Looking down on Scott's Hut at Cape Evans, Antarctica.jpg. ... The recently restored hut is pictured below, ...
A group of explorers from Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, 1907–1909, in the Antarctic hut at Cape Royds. Shackleton's Hut (77.552929°S 166.168286°E) is a historical site near Cape Royds, Ross Island, Antarctica, where the explorer Ernest Shackleton built a hut that housed his party during the winter of 1908.
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.
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]
Discovery Hut was built on Hut Point during the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904 (Discovery Expedition). It was the first hut to be built on the island. [7] Scott’s Hut at Cape Evans was the base for Robert Falcon Scott’s British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition 1910–1913. It was built in January 1911 on a beach of ...
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".
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English: Camp and Hut (summer), Cape Adare, Antarctica, British Antarctic (Southern Cross) Expedition, 1899, William Colbeck photographs and clippings, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 2123 Date 1899