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Cape Adare - First Impressions
Cape Adare First Impressions
19 December 2022
By Patrick Power, Antarctic Heritage Trust’s GM Operations and Programmes
I finally had the opportunity to visit Carsten Borchgrevink’s historic hut. The first thing you realise is how small the living area was. Its dark, cold, damp and musty. You can feel the hardship that the first overwinter team would have gone through and how claustrophobic it would have been. I doubt they got any time alone. The drawings on Kolbein Ellefsen’s bunks show how the mind changes across a long dark over winter and shows the mental suffering you can still feel within the hut.
I will never forget my first visit to Cape Adare and Borchgrevink’s Hut but I have to ask “why any would build a hut here in the first place?!”
I will never forget my first visit to Cape Adare and Borchgrevink’s Hut but I have to ask “why any would build a hut here in the first place?!”
Cape Adare - First Impressions. Antarctic Heritage Trust, accessed 16/01/2025, https://antarctic-heritage.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/268723
