Two young brothers launch model boats to circumnavigate Antarctica

Ollie and Harry Ferguson have built replicas of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror

(Image credit: MacNeill Ferguson)

published 20 July 2023

Two brothers from Aberdeenshire have built model boats that they hope will circumnavigate Antarctica. Ollie and Harry Ferguson, 13 and 11, were inspired by the Ross expedition of 1839-43, which led to the discovery of the Ross Ice Shelf. They built one metre-long replicas of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the vessels used on that expedition, which have now been launched into the Southern Ocean by a fishing vessel. The boats will be carried by currents around Antarctica, while transmitting scientific data back to the boys.

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