Acknowledgements

WITH THANKS

Antarctic Heritage Trust is grateful for the funding support received for its work at Cape Adare, particularly from the Norwegian Government. We would also like to thank Canterbury Museum for use of its facilities, Antarctica New Zealand and the Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition for logistical support, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Ministry for Primary Industries for their assistance with permitting so the site could be accessed and artefacts removed temporarily.

Exhibition Curator: Kerry McCarthy

Antarctic Heritage Programme Manager (Artefacts): Lizzie Meek

Antarctic Heritage Trust artefact conservators: Sue Bassett, Josefin Bermark-Jimenez, Ciaran Lavelle, Nicola Stewart, Stefanie Stott, Martin Wenzel

Canterbury Museum Exhibitions Team: Neil Phillips, Chris O'Rourke, Sebastian Denize, Hamish Anderson, John Owens, Liam Dangerfield and Alex Wootton

Registration: Scott Reeves, Tara Elder, Nicolas Boigelot

Communications & Marketing: Francesca Eathorne, Kester Brown, Vicki Blyth, Jack van Beynen

Website: Josh Smith at Plato Creative

Photography: Johannes van Kan

BREAKING THE ICE


Before the world had heard of Scott and Shackleton, another explorer hatched a plan to spend a year in Antarctica. He was Carsten Borchgrevink, and he and his team proved it was possible for humans to survive the Antarctic winter.

Southern Cross ship leaving Hobart, Tasmania
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The Southern Cross expedition

Carsten Borchgrevink and nine others spent a year in Antarctica, cut off from the rest of the world.

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Southern Cross expedition scientific staff
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The first people

Carsten Borchgrevink’s shore party were the first people ever to live on the Antarctic mainland.

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Cape Adare huts credit Richie Hunter
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The first buildings

Cape Adare is one of Antarctica's harshest places, but the expedition's buildings have survived for more than a century.

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Ole Must, William Colbeck and Persen Savio with puppies
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The first dogs

The Southern Cross was the first expedition to use dogs in Antarctica.

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Anton Fougner, Hugh Evans and William Colbeck at work in huts on Southern Cross expedition Cape Adare
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The first winter

The men of the Southern Cross lived through 72 days of total darkness.

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Louis Bernacchi taking readings during Southern Cross expedition
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Science

The Southern Cross scientists assembled data from a part of the Earth that was then largely unknown.

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Ridge above Cape Adare
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Exploration

The expedition's attempts to explore the ice taught them about Antarctica's deadly storms and fickle sea ice.

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Terra Nova Northern Party members Victor Campbell, George Murray Levick and Raymond Priestley prepare to leave Cape Adare, 1912
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A Second Team at Cape Adare

In 1911, Cape Adare became home to the Northern Party of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition.

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Torb Prytz at Cape Adare C AHT Lizzie Meek
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Antarctic Heritage Trust

Antarctic Heritage Trust is a New Zealand-based charity with a vision of inspiring explorers.

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