Borchgrevink's Cape Adare Hut

Borchgrevink's Cape Adare Hut

At Cape Adare, there are two huts that belonged to Carsten Borchgrevink. He sailed for six months to Cape Adare from London, England, in 1898/1899. After helping to build the huts (an "accommodation" hut and a "stores" hut), his ship departed for New Zealand -- leaving Borchgrevink, along with 9 other men and 90 dogs, to become the first humans to spend the lonely winter in Antarctica.

A third hut at Cape Adare was built by Victor Campbell, who was a part of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1911-1914. It is a ruin and basically there is not much left of it at this point.


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