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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.

Browse Highlights

Physical Laboratory, South-East corner of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2013-14 Wrapped fodder bales outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 Containers at Mario Zucchelli Station

Communication equipment on Make and Mend table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate launch for the Antarctic Peninsula Inspiring Explorer Expedition™

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - Pegasus Bay School (005)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Exterior (010)

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Stocked shelving, Ponting's darkroom (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (011)

2022-23 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (346)

2018-19 North wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2015-16 Adélie penguins at Cape Adare (018)

Adelma Matthews presenting at the Young Inspiring Explorers Summit (001)

2005 Conservators at work, Robert Clendon, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2013-14 Fry's cocoa box inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (132)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (009)

The 'Magellan Explorer' at Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia

Water stop during 'In the Footsteps of Hillary' Expedition of Mount Ollivier (001)

2006 Tack hanging inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

An Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team member pulling a sled

2006-07 South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Bowers' Annexe

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (084)

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Bulkhead in galley

2008 Blubber pile inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2009-10 Cape Royds, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, shelving outside Darkroom

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - chemical bottles

Trying out the Virtual Reality experience of Hillary's Hut (010)

Young Inspiring Explorers learn about the United States Antarctic Program (002)

2007 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior, main space

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, interior, Radio Room artefacts

Interior of Field Conservation Work Area (001)

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, Western Annex artefacts before dust mitigation (023)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Knife and brushes, Galley South wall

Inspiring Explorers with AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson and guide Bengt Rotmo

2015-16 TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz working on window (001)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring - Lifebuoy soap

Provision boxes making up the bulkhead between rooms, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2003-04 Base of Wind Vane Hill Cross at Cape Evans

2010-11 Metal survey artefact image in the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans (024)

2003-04 Exterior of sky light windows, showing cracks, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut (001)

2010-11 Megaphone in Scott's Cubicle inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

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

New boxes to house category five artefacts (010)

2019-20 Working at heights, AHT Staff Al Fastier and Nigel Watson, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (004)

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