"Almost edible"

Fruitcake is nasty!

But my question is regarding this excerpt: "The objects recovered from Cape Adare — including a watercolor painting of a Tree Creeper bird by scientist Edward Wilson — are undergoing conservation treatment and will be returned there, because the huts are deemed an Antarctic Specially Protected Area. That will happen after restoration work is finished on the buildings themselves."

Why waste the time and money restoring and returning this crap to a hut down there for nobody to see? Antarctica is not exactly a tourist destination.

Fruitcake is nasty!

But my question is regarding this excerpt: "The objects recovered from Cape Adare — including a watercolor painting of a Tree Creeper bird by scientist Edward Wilson — are undergoing conservation treatment and will be returned there, because the huts are deemed an Antarctic Specially Protected Area. That will happen after restoration work is finished on the buildings themselves."

Why waste the time and money restoring and returning this crap to a hut down there for nobody to see? Antarctica is not exactly a tourist destination.

Um, Jeff, yes it is.  I knew someone who went twice and someone else who is going sometime in the next month or two.  New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris may not have to worry about competition but, yup, people do go.

It's a very expensive destination too! I'd love to see it but never will though. I love my adopted Maine and leave it only when I must.

Fruitcake is nasty!

But my question is regarding this excerpt: "The objects recovered from Cape Adare — including a watercolor painting of a Tree Creeper bird by scientist Edward Wilson — are undergoing conservation treatment and will be returned there, because the huts are deemed an Antarctic Specially Protected Area. That will happen after restoration work is finished on the buildings themselves."

Why waste the time and money restoring and returning this crap to a hut down there for nobody to see? Antarctica is not exactly a tourist destination.

Um, Jeff, yes it is.  I knew someone who went twice and someone else who is going sometime in the next month or two.  New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris may not have to worry about competition but, yup, people do go.

Huh. Seems like a waste to me, but to each their own I guess.