"Discovery Hut was built by Robert Falcon Scott during the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 in 1902 and is located at Hut Point on Ross Island by McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The hut is located on Hut Point, about 300m away from McMurdo Base."
I learned that the hut was built by an Australian after a desert hut design: it keeps the cold in nicely. :)
So when you go in, the temperature inside is very often lower than the temperature outside. You are only allowed inside the hut with a trained hut tour guide. I was lucky that a guy who came to McMurdo from the Pole with me is trained, and had some time to show me around. So it was only the two of us in the hut, and I could take all the time in the world to take pictures and hang out.
Inside the hut there is still furniture, supplies, clothes and things from the times of the Discovery Expedition, and expeditions of later years. Some of the cans still contain food (which you could probably still eat...).
Discovery Hut from the outside. It is basically a building with a square floor plan. In the background (to the right) you can see the cross of Hut Point.
The inside of the Discovery Hut, the first room. You can see all kinds of supplies, and in the front to the right some dead seal. It's blubber was used to heat the stove.
The stove, fired with seal blubber. Used to cook and heat the hut.
Old boxes...
Supplies.
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