Historic photos - Antarctic expeditions

On Ice: 100 year-old negatives discovered in Antarctic

Conservators restoring an Antarctic exploration hut recently made a remarkable discovery: a small box of 22 exposed but unprocessed photographic negatives, frozen in a solid block of ice for nearly one hundred years.



These negatives were meticulously processed and restored by a Wellington photography conservator. Antarctic Heritage Trust executive director Nigel Watson said of these never-before-seen images:



"It's the first example that I'm aware of, of undeveloped negatives from a century ago from the Antarctic heroic era.

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