Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Question from home...

My mom wrote an email to me today and asked where the wood for the huts came from. The Cape Evans hut was made of English birchwood, I think, and the Discovery Hut was made from Australian jarrah wood. Inside both of the huts, you can see marks on the walls where the pieces were all fit together. While the huts were being built, the men (aka Antarctic explorers) would sleep on their ships. Twenty-five men slept in the hut at Cape Evans at one time. The Discovery Hut, however, was never lived in as they found it didn't hold heat like they had hoped (buildings built out of Australian jarrah wood were used in the Outback to keep people cool, but they were hoping it would have reverse effects on the Ice).

Posted by Katie from the Ice @ 10:52 PM

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Hi Katie!
Happy Thanksgiving! We are in MI with my family. Nice Time. Hope you had a good one.
The Clark's

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