Captain Robert Falcon Scott's only grandson, who's a builder by trade, will spend the new year "doing up" the Terra Nova hut from where his grandfather set out on his ill-fated journey to the South Pole.
Falcon Scott will spend more than a month this Antartic summer working in the Antarctic Heritage Trust's conservation team at Cape Evans.
It will be the first time Falcon Scott will visit his famous grandfather's base, the New Zealand charitable trust says.
He will be doing carpentry work, and re-installing stove flues and part of the acetylene plant system used to provide gas lighting, as part of the trust's Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project.
"It is an honour to work on my grandfather's expedition hut and to work with the team who are conserving it," he said in a statement on Thursday.
"This wooden hut was the last home my grandfather knew. It represents the height of his life's achievements. And it stands in testament to the courage and endurance of all those men who shared his passion to explore the science of this amazing continent, and to attain for Britain the South Pole.
"It's incredible that the hut still remains much the same one hundred years later."
Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition aimed to be the first to reach the South Pole. But Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the pole on December 14, 1911 - 33 days before Scott. He and his polar team perished on the return journey to Cape Evans.
Falcon Scott will leave Christchurch for Antarctica on December 30.
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