Models of HMS Terror and Erebus built by young brothers set sail for Antarctica
Project Erebus is an epic children’s adventure taking its inspiration from the 1839 Ross Expedition – the last, and greatest, polar expedition ever undertaken by sail.
Two adventurous brothers, Ollie and Harry, have set out to send scaled replicas of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to drift through the Southern Ocean following the circumpolar current around the coastline of Antarctica, a journey of over 20,000 km.
🌊 The metre-long ships created by Harry and Ollie Ferguson, 11 and 9, will drift the Southern Ocean for two years collecting climate data https://t.co/jQAKPtsZEn
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 17, 2023
Icoteq have designed bespoke tracking and monitoring devices for this project that will use the ARGOS satellite network to report back the location of each boat with scientific data collected along the journey.
This will include air temperature, ocean temperature and ocean pH, a key marker for climate change. Once a month each device will take a photograph from the deck of the boat and upload it to our server to give an idea of the conditions at the boat location.
A commemoration to the original expedition, this project brings together the involvement of children in science, technology and engineering subjects (STEM), the application of low cost sensors for environmental monitoring and the notion of citizen science contributing to the gathering of important scientific data at scale.
Follow the journey of Terror and Erebus on the map below, click on the waypoints for images and sensor data, and join the discussion at https://www.facebook.com/tdajp!
