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Mawsons Huts in Antarctica

On Thursday December 3 a group of ten Australian adventurers are leaving Hobart bound for Antarctica
Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica

They’re aiming to remove ice, and recover artefacts from the famous Mawson’s Huts.

The wooden huts were used as a research base by the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, led by scientist Sir Douglas Mawson.

The explorers will be in Antarctica for 8 weeks.. they also hope to find the fuselage of the first aircraft taken to the Antarctic. It was buried in ice not far from the huts.

At a cost of “several hundred thousand dollars,” the trip is being funded with the help of sponsorship from Telstra International, and a special grant from the Federal Government.  

The Mawson's Huts Foundation has been established to conserve in perpetuity for the Australian people the unique, historical buildings known as Mawson's Huts, base for one of the most significant expeditions in Antarctic history. Telstra International is proud to sponsor this expedition to Mawson’s Huts.

More information on this expedition can be found at Mawson’s Huts Foundation.

Dr Peter Morse

Dr Peter Morse (Film maker/adventurer) has lectured for many years at the University of Melbourne and Victorian College of the Arts in the field of Digital Media Production and subsequently at the University of Western Australia in Communication Studies. He has researched and taught in many institutions in Australia as well as overseas.

Since 1999 he has worked on Antarctic-related materials and in 2005-6 he was the recipient of an Australian Antarctic Division Antarctic Arts Fellowship, which enabled him to spend nearly 3 months aboard the 10,000 ton Russian Icebreaker M.V. Vasiliy Golovnin shooting stereoscopic content at Australia’s three main Antarctic Bases.

In 2006-7 he worked for the Australian Antarctic Division as a computer visualisation consultant for the Mawson’s Huts Foundation and in 2009-10 he is shooting a feature in Antarctica, using self-designed ultra-high-definition motion-controlled stereoscopic HDR fulldome time-lapse and panoramic systems. www.petermorse.com.au

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