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Through our mission to conserve, share and encourage the spirit of exploration, Antarctic Heritage Trust cares for the remarkable expedition bases of the early Antarctic explorers and shares the legacy of exploration through outreach programmes and expeditions to engage and inspire a new generation of explorers.

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Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project (RSHRP)

A multi-year, multi-site international heritage conservation project to secure the five historic explorer bases of Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Carsten Borchgrevink and Sir Edmund Hillary, and conserve the thousands of artefacts associated with the sites.

Inspiring Explorers™ Programme

Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expeditions™ provide opportunities for young people to experience and challenge themselves in the polar regions. They connect young people with the legacy the Trust cares for and encourage them to embrace the spirit of exploration.

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2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (001)

Young Inspiring Explorers™ in front of the penguin mural in Cathedral Square (003)

2019-20 Southern food cache near Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2003-04 AHT contracted Historian David Harrowfield

2005-06 Metal floor panels surrounding Mrs Sam Stove, Cape Royds

K172 gear kit-out at Antarctica New Zealand warehouse (002)

2013-14 Main space inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Galley (003)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, exterior painted text detail (001)

2010-11 South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 Image of a woman with two children inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2019-20 Baseline image - Shacklock 501 range, Mess room (Room 5), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut stables - Burberry head protector

2012 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, crate of salt jars in Shackleton's room

Provision boxes alongside the blubber stove

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (023)

2005 Hägglunds arriving to collect more artefacts (002)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (012)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, internal timber supports (024)

2006 Dog biscuit box inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, internal timber supports (007)

2010-11 Physical Laboratory inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2006-07 Robert Clendon packing artefacts for conservation, Cape Royds (003)

2010-11 Metal survey artefact image in the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans (014)

Fry's cocoa boxes, Galley of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Northeast elevation, Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (001)

2005 Artefacts on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (007)

Stables area, north side of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2002 K440 at Cape Evans - View up Wind Vane Hill

Mess Deck looking east, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Stromness whaling station, South Georgia (001)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2010-11 Containers at the Cape Royds field camp

Snow Removal from Scott's 'Discovery' hut (004)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, table salt jars

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (005)

2010-11 John Taylor checking the level of the deflection dam, Cape Royds

Southeast elevation, Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

Our Stories

Historic Medicine at Cape Evans

Jane Hamill, Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Lead Conservator, tells us about the return of Dr Wilson’s historic medical kit to Scott’s Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans.

Shackleton's Peas

Antarctic Heritage Trust Conservator Belinda Hager discusses the treatment of canned food tins from Shackleton’s hut at Cape Royds.

Artefacts Returned to Cape Evans

The team repatriated several items to Scott’s Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans this season including an improvised sledge distance meter wheel once owned by George Murray Levick.

2022-23 Summer Season Complete

The Trust’s On-Ice Conservation team spent seven weeks in Antarctica undertaking a comprehensive monitoring and maintenance programme on the historic Ross Island explorer bases