B Antarctica will restore the first buildings on the continent - of a hovel of Borkhgrevink in which expedition of the Norwegian researcher for the first time wintered in one of the most inhospitable places on the continent - on the cape Ader. The historical buildings built in 1899, it is decided to keep.
From New Zealand to Antarctica were transported by three plastic boxing. Initially them developed as an emergency shelter for a ski resort in Arrowtown, but present mission will be much more difficult. In three very modest containers by the sizes which within 9 hours set up on wooden floorings, workers-builders should live. It is expected that their mission on preservation of a shelter of the Norwegian researchers will last about four years. Video of installation of ascetic housing for builders publishes Newshub .
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Carsten Borchgrewink's Expedition - the first which managed to winter in Antarctica. The wooden houses built for wintering became the first constant buildings on the continent, specifies a site by "Forgotten researcher" . It also made Antarctica the only continent of Earth where the first constructions built by the person remain.
For expedition to Norway were made by two folding wooden houses - the inhabited module the sizes of 6,4 by 5,4 meters and one more more modest which was used as the storeroom. Roofs of structures were made of skins of seals which on a place were supposed to be weighted by means of stones and bags with coal.
Scientific achievements of team of Borkhgrevink were modest and appeared Scott and Amundsen's crossed-out expeditions, it is noted in article by Wiki . The British Royal geographical society, which head actively opposed Borkhgrevink's expedition and refused to finance it, recognized merits of the Norwegian researcher only 1930.
Living conditions on the cape Ader were much heavier thanbecause of constant winds which brought cold air from the continent center. Members of expedition of Borkhgrevink managed to winter at the width of 78 degrees of 50 minutes - the most southern of reached by the person by that moment. However the program of researches was limited, including because of death Khansen Nicholas, representing the London Museum of natural history. The first dawn after polar night looked approximately so:
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