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Preserving Polar History

... at Mary Winspear Centre

At the turn of the twentieth century, Antarctica was host to one of the world’s last great races of geographic discovery as explorers including Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen breached the shores of the frozen continent in hopes of reaching the South Pole. Remarkably, the wooden structures built as bases for those expeditions remain standing in Antarctica to this day, filled with the provisions, personal belongings and scientific equipment left behind at the end of Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.
The extreme polar environment has begun to take its toll on these buildings and their contents, however, putting them in immediate jeopardy. A massive international conservation project, one of the most complicated ever undertaken, is now underway in hopes of preventing their complete destruction. This presentation will provide an intimate look at that conservation effort and the exceptional environmental and logistical challenges it faces, preceded by an overview of Antarctic exploration.

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