| Autor: |
Bickersteth, Julian1 j.bickersteth@icssydney.com, Clayton, Sarah2,3 sarah.clayton@awm.gov.au, Tennant, Fiona4,5 f.tennant@icssydney.com |
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Studies in Conservation. 2008 Supplement, Vol. 53, p218-223. 6p. 2 Maps. |
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The four Antarctic huts in the Ross Sea Dependency built during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration (1899–1917) contain some 15000 artifacts. A program for their conservation and long-term care has been developed over the last six years, culminating in the placement of a conservation laboratory at New Zealand’s Scott Base and the employment of conservators to ‘winter over’ in the Antarctic while conserving the artifacts. There is arguably no more challenging current conservation project, requiring coordination and planning of equipment, supplies, transport of artifacts from the huts to Scott Base, employment of contract conservators and development of cold climate conservation treatment methodologies. Heavily international in focus, to date conservators from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and Germany have wintered over. This paper reports on a ‘work in progress’, as the project is not due to be completed until at least 2012. It discusses the broader issue of how the site is being interpreted and the role conservators are playing in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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GreenFILE |
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