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Part of the Ross Island Huts in Ross Island, Antarctica, Shackleton's Hut was built in 1907 by Ernest Shackleton during the Nimrod Expedition when Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908, having failed to land on King Edward VII Land. It was located at Cape Royds, a small promontory twenty-three miles north of Hut Point where Scott had stayed during the Discovery Expedition.[1]

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Shackleton's Hut, along with the mentioned but offscreen huts built by Robert Scott: Discovery Hut & Scott's Hut, were featured in The Bodies Left Behind starting in 6 months after people.

The show stated that while nature attacks, it preserves others like in Ross Island, Antarctica where the show introduce the Ross Island Huts, including the Shackleton's Hut, explaining the huts were built & used in the early 20th century by Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Ross Island has an average temperature of -3°, which the ravages of decay were slowed making the huts inside and out frozen in time. John Anderson stated that with the severe cold in Antarctica, insects, fungus, and mold that would gnaw away the wooden structure doesn't exist in Antarctica. It then shows the 1917 cans of beef left on the shelf where John Anderson said that the cans would last 2 or 3 more centuries. Finally it shows the meat sill hanging on the metal hooks that still edible after almost a century and in extreme cases, preserved flesh that were preserved for thousands of years in extreme cold.

The fate of Shackleton's Hut, along with the huts built by Robert Scott, is revealed in 10,000 years after people when the planet has become warmer even on the coldest places on Earth. John Anderson stated that areas around Shackleton's Hut and the huts built by Robert Scott will start to increase in plant life, insects, & organisms where it begin to increase the rate of decay on the structures. He continues that the huts would disappear in 10,000 years.

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