Travelling through time, space to Antartica

Photo: Peter McIntosh
Photo: Peter McIntosh
Tāmati Matthews, 14, of Dunedin, uses immersive virtual reality to explore Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Hut at an exhibition in Tūhura Otago Museum.

The experience allows people to step inside Capt Scott's hut and interact with the artefacts left by the explorers that inhabited it, including Capt Scott himself, Ernest Shackleton and young New Zealander Clarence Hare.

It also allows visitors to take a ride in a hydrogen balloon, feed huskie sled dogs and get up close to the RRS Discovery.

It is among a display of Antarctic artefacts related to Capt Scott, including an ice axe given to him by Captain George Hooper and a pair of boots marked EW, for Edward Wilson, the English doctor who was a member of Scott’s "Discovery" and "Terra Nova" expeditions.

The Antarctic Heritage Trust exhibition opened on Monday and runs in the Hutton Theatre until Friday afternoon.

 

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