Hobart is as close as I’m ever going to get to Antarctica. The Mawson Expedition left from Hobart and explored Antarctica from 1911-1914, asserting Australia’s claim to the continent. Today the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina is the main supply ship to the Aussie scientists living in outposts there. Too bad the Nuyina doesn’t fit in Hobart’s harbor. It’s built like a fortified floating city. There’s a Lego model of the Nuyina in cutaway in the Museum of Tasmania:
Huskies helped colonize Antarctica by pulling sledges. They lived side-by-side with their people until the 1990’s, when animals were outlawed on the fragile continent by international treaty. Their traces looked a lot like Starlight’s harness.
In the Royal Botanical Garden there was a unique exhibit on Antarctica plants displayed in a refrigerated room. I liked the dioramas of Antarctic plant life.
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That looks like a great museum! Simon loved the lego diorama and we spent some time reading more about the Nuyina and watching an informative video.
“I liked the legos of the big ship”
-Simon
Love,
Shosh
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