Terra Nova

Here's an interesting bit of history, related to my earlier post about the new digs for the scientists at Amundsen-Scott base at the South Pole. It seems that the base that explorer Robert Falcon Scott set off from on his ill-fated trip to the pole is still intact and is kept almost as a shrine to the doomed explorer. Both Scott and Ernest Shackleton (who's adventure did not work out well, either) used the building known as Terra Nova on McMurdo Sound.

The hut is much as Scott left it having been restored in 1960. Some of the food there is believed to still be edible nearly a century after the departure of the explorers. The building's interior looks like the owners just stepped out for a moment and plan to return momentarily. The world's coldest museum. (Some excellent high resolution photographs at the link).