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SUMMARY:Michaelmas Term Lecture - Susanna Ferrar:  "Stuff: what good is an
  Antarctic Heritage?"
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CONTACT:Ellen Bazeley-White
DESCRIPTION:Hartley Travers Ferrar was the geologist on the "Discovery" ex
 pedition of 1901-4\, so shared their first foray into Antarctic exploratio
 n with both Scott and Shackleton. His grand-daughter Susanna Ferrar has be
 en trying to follow the faint trail he left behind and has been exploring 
 some interesting questions. She was fortunate enough to be accepted onto C
 anterbury University's Postgraduate Certificate of Antarctic Studies cours
 e in 2011\, spending 6 months in quake-ravaged Christchurch and 10 days in
  Antarctica\, camping on the Ross Ice shelf and passing through Scott and 
 McMurdo Bases. She is continuing to trawl the archives at SPRI when she ca
 n\, rendering her grandfather's papers into electronic form so that they w
 ill be more easily accessible in the future.\n
LOCATION:SPRI Lecture Theatre\, Lensfield Road
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