McMurdo Station and Observation Hill
The two small black spots are seals!
Look! Seals!
A sleeping seal behind the sign. "Whatever..." the seal says.
Discovery Hut and McMurdo Station. The Discovery Hut was built by the Discovery Expedition led by Robert Scott in 1902. After the Ross Sea Party led by Shackelton left the hut in 1917, it has been preserved as it was until now. So what we see inside shows items that the expedition brought including food, clothes, kitchen utensils, and even seals and penguins that they hunted.
Being preserved by the temperature which seldom rises above freezing for nearly 100 years, seals and penguins still hangs inside the hut. However, slow bacterial decay still occurs, which makes the hut filled with rancid smell.
Even just before the expedition left the hut, they were cooking some kind of meat on a pan. Seal blubber still remains on the surface of the ax.
Food cans and partly bitten biscuits arranged on the shelf. This seems to me that they were trying to save food eating only a small bite of biscuit.
Mittens and clothes
The two small black spots are seals!
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