I suspect there aren't many of us who read both Polar Libraries and the
Museum List, and they even more rarely overlap.  Here, however, is an
interesting note about an Antarctic artifact that our friends in New
Zealand might be able to shed some light on.  If you know what happened
to this historic Antarctic artifact, please let me know, and I'll forward
your reply back to polar libraries.
    By the way, if any of you are interested, we're hosing the 10th
biennial Polar Libraries Colloquy in Anchorage over the solstice, and
would be glad to add a few more attendees.  If you want a sneak of the
program, write me direct and I'll send you something about it.
     Diane Brenner
     Anchorage Museum, Archivist

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Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 20:25:18 -0600
From: robert stephenson <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Antarctic History (of sorts) - Episode 6

Continuing a series of occasional entries from my ever-expanding
"Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer." Please, if you have additional
information, new sites, corrections, etc., let me know. Thanks.

No 069: A Scott sledge that came in handy in Dunedin, New Zealand.

An interesting item appears in the Polar Times, November 1939 (page 10):
"SLEDGE, MUSEUM PIECE HAULS FOOD IN BLIZZARD.
Dunedin, N.Z., July 26 (AP)- A sledge that has been in a museum for
twenty-six years was used today to carry food to a radio station isolated
by the worst snowstorm in Dunedin's history. The rescuers got within a
quarter of a mile of the station, on a hill above the city, and were met by
the station staff.
Capt. Robert Falcon Scott originally used the sledge on an expedition to
the South Pole."

I wonder whether that sledge is back in the museum in Dunedin. Do any of
you know? Have any of you seen it?
I also wonder whether any curator or museum director would allow such a
thing to happen in this day and age. Think of the paperwork! The
committees! The policy considerations! It would be spring by the time the
sledge could be released-if at all.

I have a few more historic sledges in my data base; I'll leave those to
other episodes.

Next time: No 105: Some cows that headed south in 1933.

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