CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND—Three buildings and thousands of artifacts left by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton some 100 years ago have been preserved by an international team of specialists managed by New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust. Heritage carpenters repaired and weatherproofed Scott’s huts at Cape Evans and Hut Point, and Shackleton’s hut at Cape Royds. “Everything takes about three times as long and is more difficult, but also it’s how to preserve objects in such extreme temperatures,” artifact manager Lizzie Meeks told One News. Food supplies, clothing, equipment, and personal items left behind by the Scott and Shackleton expeditions have been conserved in laboratories that were built for the project, which took more than ten years to complete and cost $8 million. To read more about the conservation effort, see "Photographs from Shackleton’s Antarctica Expedition Developed."
