A hut like home...

If you’already have cabin fever, consider Robert Falcon Scott's words about the 15.2 m × 7.6 m hut erected in 1911 for the Terra Nova Expedition “… the most comfortable dwelling-place imaginable... a truly seductive home, [where] peace, quiet and comfort remain supreme.…” Twenty five men lived here for 2 years, notwithstanding their various expeditions, including the “worst journey in the world” in which 3 men set out to retrieve Emperor Penguin eggs in −77 °F (−61 °C) or “as cold as anyone would want to endure in darkness and iced up clothes". On Nov. 1, sixteen left for the South Pole with eleven sent back in December and January. The sad fate of the polar party is well known but controversy persists as to whether their lives would have been saved if Scott’s orders concerning dogs and rations had been followed. Relief missions returned alone and by 30 March, commander Edward Atkinson noted he was "morally certain" the polar party had perished. Those remaining endured another winter in that hut, without contact with the outside world by doggedly continuing their routines of work and leisure. Before departing, they erected a cross with a quotation from Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield". #stayathome