Visitors to Hobart’s Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum will have an added layer of protection from COVID-19 in the form of protective sealant Hygiene+ over the summer months and moving forward.
Continue readingFrench Navy lands Australian conservation team in Antarctica
Members of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation have been landed by helicopter from the French icebreaker L’Astrolabe at Cape Denison, a remote stretch of windswept coastline 2500km south of Hobart.
Continue readingANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONERS TACKLE WORLD’S CHILLEST CONSERVATION PROJECT
A team of conservation experts will venture to Australia’s remotest Antarctic outpost to carry out works on the relics of our first Antarctic expedition. One hundred and ten years since Douglas Mawson set sail from Hobart, the 2021/22 Mawson’s Huts Foundation expedition will spend five weeks in one of the harshest environments on earth in a bid to ensure the survival of the wooden huts they left behind.
Continue readingMedia Release – Antarctic Festival 2022
Support from the City of Hobart will ensure the ever-popular Australian Antarctic Festival will have a new prominence internationally when it re-emerges from its Covid-mandated hiatus in August next year.
Continue readingCan I travel with you to Antarctica?
Travel to Antarctica, advice and how to do it.
Continue readingTop six must-read Antarctic books
If you are looking for inspiration for your next Antarctic reading adventure, look no further.
Continue readingResignation of David Jensen AM
The Board of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation announced today that the founding Chairman David Jensen AM has resigned his position as a Director and Chair of the Foundation after 24 years service.
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