Wilson's Stone Igloo (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wilson's Stone Igloo (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Historic
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Historic site being the remains of a stone hut, at Igloo Spur, Cape Crozier, Ross Island. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MF16
Historic Monument No.21 under the Antarctic Treaty System. The remains of the stone hut constructed in 1911 by Dr Edward Wilson, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Henry Robertson Bowers on a winter journey to collect Emperor Penguin eggs, under the Terra Nova expedition (1910-13). At the time Cherry-Gerrard recorded proposed names 'Oriana Hut' (for the naturalist Oriana Wilson, wife of Edward Adrian Wilson), 'Terra Igloo' (appears also as Terror Igloo), 'Bleak House', and 'The House on the Hill'. The NZGSAE (New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition), 1958-59 later named the surrounding rocky outcrop Igloo Spur by association.
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