'Century-old artefacts from Sir Douglas Mawson’s expedition, including a wool balaclava, have been found by heritage experts as they chip away at snow and ice from Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica.

At Cape Denison, 2,500km south of Hobart, the six-strong Mawson’s Huts Foundation team is hard at work conserving the home of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic expedition (AAE).

The expedition field leader, Marty Passingham, said the team hoped to restore the hut to the state it was in when Mawson left in 1914.

“We’ve made a promising start and we’re hoping we will have a large amount of the ice and snow removed and artefacts exposed by the end of the expedition in three weeks’ time,” he said on Sunday.'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/03/expedition-finds-century-old-balaclava-at-douglas-mawsons-hut-in-antarctica