• A survey of South Georgia’s whaling stations takes place, to consider how best to conserve the Manager’s Villa at Stromness Whaling Station. The international team of 11 specialists contracted by the Trust spends 17 days at South Georgia (12 days at Stromness, two days at Grytviken, two days at Leith and one day at Husvik). The survey team also examines the environmentally harmful remnants of the whaling industry in the shape of oil, asbestos and loose debris, and considers how by removing them the site could be made safer.
• As part of a partnership with GSGSSI the South Georgia Museum curatorial team creates displays, signage and a safe route around the Main Store at Grytviken, which is then opened to visitors and becomes part of the Whaling Station tour given by the museum team.
• The ‘Quest’ exhibition, telling the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s life and his last voyage, his burial on South Georgia, and the remainder of the Quest expedition, is staged at the Museum in time for the centenary of Shackleton’s death on 5 January 1922. An online exhibition ‘My Shackleton’ is also launched on 5 January. The exhibition is collaborative and remains live and open to new content for the whole of the centenary year, then becoming a permanent exhibition at the museum.
• The crow’s nest from Quest (Shackleton’s last expedition ship) is loaned to the South Georgia Museum by All Hallows by the Tower in London.
• SGHT hosts an online talk ‘Shackleton’s Quest at South Georgia’ by Dr Jan Chojecki, the grandson of John Quiller Rowett who financed the Quest expedition.
• Commensalis (Artistic Commision) – the Spirit Tables of South Georgia is launched at the Barber Surgeon’s Hall in London, with BAS whale scientist Dr Jen Jackson and artist Michael Visocchi featuring in an “in conversation” about art and science.
• Former South Georgia Museum Curator Elsa Davidson does a ‘Wild swim challenge’ to fundraise for the Stromness Manager’s Villa project in the memory of writer and South Georgia legend Robert Burton. Elsa’s personal challenge is to wild swim every day during the month of March in the seas around Orkney. The final total she raises of £6,800 is put towards the long-term conservation of the Villa, in Bob’s memory.