The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust is celebrating the return of a historic set of scales souvenired from an English explorer s base hut more than 60 years ago.
The Salter scales belonged in Robert Falcon Scott s Discovery Hut and are more than 100 years old.
The scales were taken as a souvenir by Naval command officer Captain James Douglas while he was in charge of building eight US bases in Antarctica in the late 1950s.
He passed them on to his daughter Susanna Marquette, telling her they were used to weigh meat for the dogs at the hut. I was very, very honoured that he had passed them onto me, Marquette said.