They're a bit out of the way, but thanks to new panoramas launched by
Google Street View today, you too can explore two of the most famous huts
in the history of exploration: the Shackleton's hut and the
Scott's
hut in Antarctica.
With this technology, you can go inside places like Shackleton’s
Hut (pictured above) and the other small wooden buildings that served
as bases from which the explorers launched their expeditions. They were
built to withstand the drastic weather conditions only for the few short
years that the explorers inhabited them, but remarkably, after more
than a century, the structures are still intact, along with well-preserved
examples of the food, medicine, survival gear and equipment used during
the expeditions. Now anyone can explore these huts and get insight into
how these men lived for months at a time.
View the panoramic imageries of the huts of the South Pole expeditioners
over at the project's blog page:
here.
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