Scott described the hut’s feeling of comfort: ‘The word hut is misleading. Our residence is really a house of considerable size, in every respect the finest that has ever been erected in the polar regions’

Working from historical photographs and documents, it took experts ten years to conserve the huts, which had suffered due to water seepage, age, and simply being left exposed to the polar elements.

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