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ABSTRACT. At Cape Adare, there are three wooden historic huts in varying condition. Two are the first permanent structures erected in Antarctica for human habitation and were occupied in 1899 by the British Antarctic Expedition (1898–1900) led by C.E. Borchgrevink. The third hut was built in 1911 by...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.584.3856 2023-05-15T13:50:48+02:00 Contents David L. Harrowfield The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2006 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.584.3856 http://www.heritage-antarctica.org/content/library/Published_Paper_D_Harrowfield.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.584.3856 http://www.heritage-antarctica.org/content/library/Published_Paper_D_Harrowfield.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.heritage-antarctica.org/content/library/Published_Paper_D_Harrowfield.pdf text 2006 ftciteseerx 2016-08-28T00:06:26Z ABSTRACT. At Cape Adare, there are three wooden historic huts in varying condition. Two are the first permanent structures erected in Antarctica for human habitation and were occupied in 1899 by the British Antarctic Expedition (1898–1900) led by C.E. Borchgrevink. The third hut was built in 1911 by the northern party of R.F. Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) led by V.L.A. Campbell. Previous research has focused on the unusual wind regime at Ridley Beach, Cape Adare, with the use of an environmental wind tunnel to support field observations, and on the sequence of destruction by wind of the 1911 hut. The present paper focuses on the weathering of timber at some historic huts in Antarctica and presents observations and data collected on three visits to Cape Adare spanning 21 years. The results indicate that over 23 % of the timber has been eroded from exposed board ends on one corner of Borchgrevink’s ‘stores hut ’ and further damage to the huts is being caused by wind blown sand and pebbles which, at two meters above the ground surface, can attain a velocity of 29–203 km/hr−1. This has in places, resulted in severe degradation of the timber. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Unknown Adare ENVELOPE(170.233,170.233,-71.283,-71.283) Antarctic Borchgrevink ENVELOPE(23.133,23.133,-72.117,-72.117) Cape Adare ENVELOPE(175.000,175.000,-71.000,-71.000) Ridley ENVELOPE(-58.017,-58.017,-61.850,-61.850) Ridley Beach ENVELOPE(170.217,170.217,-71.300,-71.300) |
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ABSTRACT. At Cape Adare, there are three wooden historic huts in varying condition. Two are the first permanent structures erected in Antarctica for human habitation and were occupied in 1899 by the British Antarctic Expedition (1898–1900) led by C.E. Borchgrevink. The third hut was built in 1911 by the northern party of R.F. Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) led by V.L.A. Campbell. Previous research has focused on the unusual wind regime at Ridley Beach, Cape Adare, with the use of an environmental wind tunnel to support field observations, and on the sequence of destruction by wind of the 1911 hut. The present paper focuses on the weathering of timber at some historic huts in Antarctica and presents observations and data collected on three visits to Cape Adare spanning 21 years. The results indicate that over 23 % of the timber has been eroded from exposed board ends on one corner of Borchgrevink’s ‘stores hut ’ and further damage to the huts is being caused by wind blown sand and pebbles which, at two meters above the ground surface, can attain a velocity of 29–203 km/hr−1. This has in places, resulted in severe degradation of the timber. |
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