Scotts Hut 3d Tour

The headquarters building still exists and is known as scotts hut. Scotts second expedition the british antarctic expedition 1910 1913 built its headquarters on cape evans. It was erected in 1911 by the british antarctic expedition of 19101913 also known as the terra.
scott's hut 3d tour

Aht based in new zealand was formed in 1987 to protect the buildings of the heroic age of antarctic exploration.

Scotts hut 3d tour. Everything is as they left it even down to the woolly socks and hot water bottle hanging over scotts bed. Scotts hut is a building located on the north shore of cape evans on ross island in antarctica. Googles street view has created 3d explorable panoramas of the huts used by two fo the greatest antarctic explorers ernest shackleton and robert falcon scott. 10 panoramas 8 from inside the terra nova hut and 2 landscape panoramas of cape evans can be viewed both individually and as a virtual tour taking the visitor online through all corners of the hut and around at cape evans where you can see mount erebus mcmurdo sound frozen between cape evans.

The trust recently finished conservation on the hut and is pleased to be able to share this iconic piece of antarctic history. One day in late november five of us took a day trip over the sea ice by snowmobile to visit scotts hut at cape evans. Everything is as they left it even down to the woolly socks and hot water bottle hanging over scotts bed. The building is located on the north shore of cape evans on ross island in antarctica.

Then this data became a 3d model and open for public virtual tour. Shackletons hut on cape royds was included on the 2004 world monuments watch having been nominated by the antarctic heritage trust aht. The huts have been preserved by the. At the time of nomination the trust had a comprehensive preservation and management plan.

To enter terra nova hut is akin to bumping into scott and his men themselves. Shackletons was included in 2004 and 2006 and scotts in 2008. Inside the hut a taxidermy emperor penguin lies beside a copy of the illustrated london news on a work table. Both scotts hut and shackletons hut have been included on the world monuments watch.

In 2016 there was a preservation project by photographic and laser measurements for the entire house and the surrounding area. Steve emslie univ of north carolina wilmington provides a virtual tour of robert falcon scotts hut used during his discovery expedition at hut point ross island antarctica in 1902 1904. The results can now be seen on this website. A fully immersive experience which includes a guided tour through the hut it celebrates new zealands first leadership presence in antarctica as part of the trans antarctic expedition and international geophysical year.