Historic Huts in the Antarctic from the Heroic era

Compiled by: R. K. Headland, Scott Polar Institute, 1 June 2005

Existing huts (7)
Location	Winter year   (personnel)	Expedition (year) vessel  (winter complement)		Winter leader		Maintained by
Cape Adare	1899 (10)	British Antarctic Expedition    (1898-1900) Southern Cross		Carsten Borchgrevink		Antarctic Heritage Trust N.Z.(AHTNZ)
Hut Point, Ross Island	1902,   1903	British National Antarctic    Expedition (1901-04) Discovery    (45 in 1902, 37 in 1903)		Robert Scott		Antarctic Heritage Trust N.Z.
	1916 (3)	lmperial Trans-Antarctic     Expedition (1914-17) Aurora		[Æneas Mackintosh, 1915]
Snow Hill Island	1902 (6), 1903 (6)	Swedish South Polar Expedition    (1901-03) Antarctic		Otto Nordenskjöld		Instituto Antártico Argentino
Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands	1905 (5)  – present	Oficina Meteorológica Argentina    (1904-05) Uruguay		Otto Diebel		Instituto Antártico Argentino
Cape Royds, Ross Island	1908 (15)	British Antarctic Expedition    (1907-09) Nimrod		Ernest Shackleton		Antarctic Heritage Trust N.Z.
Cape Evans, Ross Island	1911 (25) 1912 (13)	British Antarctic Expedition.    (1910-13) Terra Nova		Robert Scott Edward Atkinson		Antarctic Heritage Trust N.Z.
	1915 (10)1916 (4)	Imperial Trans-Antarctic    Expedition (1914-17) Aurora		Æneas Mackintosh           (1915 only)
Commonwealth Bay	1912 (18)1913 (7)	Australasian Antarctic Expedition    (1911-14) Aurora		Douglas Mawson		Mawson’s Hut Foundation and the Australian Antarctic Division
Ruins (roofless) (4)
Paulet Island	1903 (20)	Swedish South Polar Expedition    (1901-03) Antarctic	Carl Anton Larsen			Instituto Antártico Argentino
Hope Bay	1903 (3)	Swedish South Polar Expedition    (1901-03) Antarctic	Gunnar Andersson			Instituto Antártico Argentino
Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands	1903,   1904 (5)	Scottish National Antarctic    Expedition (1902-04) Scotia    (33 in 1903) Oficina Meteorológica Argentina    (1904-05) Scotia	William Bruce   Robert Mossman			Instituto Antártico Argentino
Cape Adare	1911 (6)	British Antarctic Expedition    (1910-13) Terra Nova	Victor Campbell			Antarctic Heritage Trust N.Z.
Sites where huts were deployed but where they no longer exist (10)						Reason for loss
Iles Kerguelen	1902 (5)	German South Polar Expedition    (1901-03) Gauss			Emil Werth	Dilapidation
Booth Island	1904	French Antarctic Expedition    (1903-05) Français (20)			Jean Charcot	Dilapidation
King Edward Point, South Georgia	1907 (1)  – 1955	Norwegian whalers  (Grytviken transport vessels)			Erik Nordenhaag (meteorologist) and later ones	Demolition in 1974 by British Antarctic Survey
Petermann Island	1909	French Antarctic Expedition    (1908-10) Porquoi Pas ? (30)			Jean Charcot	Dilapidation
Bay of Whales	1911 (9)	Norwegian Antarctic Expedition    (1910-12) Fram			Roald Amundsen	Calving of the lce Shelf
Inexpressible Island	1912 (6)	British Antarctic Expedition     (1910-13) Terra Nova			Victor Campbell	Ablation and melting
Shackleton lce Shelf	1912 (8)	Australasian Antarctic Expedition    (1911-14) Aurora			Frank Wild	Calving of the lce Shelf
Macquarie Island	1912 (5)1913 (5)	Australasian Antarctic Expedition    (1911-14) Aurora			George Ainsworth	Demolition in 1948 by Australian
	1914 (3) 1915 (3)	Commonwealth Meteorological    Expedition (1914-16) Endeavour			Harold Power A. Tulloch	National Antarctic Research Expedition
Point Wild, Elephant Island	1916 (22)	Imperial Trans-Antarctic    Expedition (1914-16) boats from   Endurance			Frank Wild	Overwhelmed by sea
Waterboat Point	1921 (2)	British Expedition to Graham Land    (1920-22) Svend Foyn			Thomas Bagshawe	Dilapidation

Winter personnel for huts are given where they were independent, or complements of vessels where one wintered in the vicinity of a hut.

Huts, castaway depots, and similar structures, which were built by whalers and others during this period, were also on South Georgia, South Shetland Islands, South Orkney Islands, Iles Kerguelen, and some other peri-Antarctic islands.  Several of these islands also had sealers refuges and abandoned observatories from earlier expeditions.