Scott and Shackleton’s Abandon Antarctic Huts

Fogonazos blog has an interesting post about the huts abandoned by Antarctic explorers Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton:

Shelves are still stocked with tins of cabbage, veal or onions. All these objects have been preserved by the cold for the last 100 years. Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton left them here in their way to the South Pole, in the beginning of the 20th century. But none of them was able to come back.

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April 1, 2008 at 6:01 pm by Alex
Category: Travel & Places

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18 comments to "Scott and Shackleton’s Abandon Antarctic Huts"

CheeseDuck
April 1st, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Emperor penguin eggs?
empty-minded
April 1st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I don’t see any signs of the battle between the Predators and the Aliens. Am I missing something?
DwardisimoRex
April 1st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
While was Shackleton celebrated as a hero when his quests were ridiculously fool hearty from the outset. He was a reckless crackpot at best.
xander
April 1st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
An alien crackpot?
Miller
April 1st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I think this is absolutly brilliant!

Just the fact that they planned and made such an attempt at executing their plan… is mind blowing.

Just think about it.. No Satalite Phone, No air drops, No high tech thermal gear, No Emergency beacons… yadda yadda yadda…

Sure you think. South Pole.. Tons of Penguins…. lots of food…. Honestly though.. Theirs a million of them.. and one of you! Dare ya!

But common… no KD? No IPod? Nooooooo way to check Neatorama every day?

I dare to think that some of would shoot ourselves with a musket… Circa 1908

My opinion is that he did well and took a risk and pushed it to the max and failed. Thats the price some of us pay to win.

Cheers
Christophe
April 1st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Just a technical question: since there is no wood, what were they burning in the stove?
Dave
April 1st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Anyone who hasn’t read Shackelton’s story really should. It is amazing. The book is called “The Endurance”, by Alfred Lansing. Don’t bother with the made for A&E movie of the story; it doesn’t do it justice.

Think of Castaway times 28.

“MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON”
Dave
April 1st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
“… since there is no wood, what were they burning in the stove?”

They burned seal blubber. Nicely sooty.

DwardisimoRex: I think you’re being a bit harsh. He was an explorer. A might bit eccentric, but he had leadership qualities that are hard to find. How many people could set out with a crew that large, have the mission fail so miserably, and still bring everyone back alive? That is the exceptional part of this story.
luke
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 am
I love learning about Shackelton
LoveZombie
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
This is amazing. I really dig stuff like this. I would love to see it with my own eyes but no thanks.. Im not a big cold person. ha ha
Carruthers
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Yep - DwardisimoRex doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Shackleton’s exploration adventures are almost mythical - sort of akin to a 20th century Odysseus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

NOVA did film on him. Accompanying site here:
http://main.wgbh.org/imax/shackleton/

another link - I think to an Imax film:
http://main.wgbh.org/imax/shackleton/

“The Greatest Survival Story of All Time”
Carruthers
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Oops - that first link to NOVA should be this one:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/

And Alex already linked to a kid’s book/site on him:
http://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/18/expeditions-you-wouldnt-go-on-and- why/
Cindy
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
That’s neat. I’m suprised it’s held up, winds there can be hellacious. Must have been built really well.
ted
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
What, no Lenin statues?
su.wei
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
ive always wanted to go to antarctica. but for now i’ll be satisfied with sequencing antarctic icefish DNA!
Aramax
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 am
If they wait a little bit longer the veal is going to be coocked when they come back.

Global warming… get it?
fsmarch
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
Walking into those huts must be like walking through a time port into another age.
Lasse
April 4th, 2008 at 5:09 am
All this stuff would sell really well on ebay.

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