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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

Inspiring Explorers and passengers meet a Leopard seal (001)

2006-07 Antarctic Heritage Trust Building Conservation team photo

Young Inspiring Explorers at the International Antarctic Centre (002)

Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut under blanket of snow (005)

2010-11 Artefacts on the Biology table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2018-19 TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (001)

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (151)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Photographic supplies in Ponting's Darkroom (002)

Young Inspiring Explorers™ weathering a storm in the International Antarctic Centre (004)

2010-11 Foil mirror in the Wardroom in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (43)

2017-18 Scott Base, AHT's Diana McCormack working on ski

2003 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior - Hoar frosting on roof interior (001)

2005 Southern stores split wheat sit under snow, Cape Evans (002)

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (001)

Safety pin on wool shirt, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2013-14 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 Artefacts outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2005-06 Drainage along the East wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2015-16 Stores hut door, Cape Adare (037)

2013-14 Stack of penguins inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Galley, natural light

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut anemometer (006)

Provision box stack, Scott's 'Discovery' hut

2010-11 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut from a distance

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (154)

2018-19 Scott's Cubicle inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2005-06 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut window, Cape Royds (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (209)

2003-04 Door to darkroom and physical laboratory, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior (012)

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut artefact repopulation, Stove Area

2014 Hut Point and Royal Society Range (004)

2013-14 Artefacts in the Darkroom inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

Inspiring Explorers kayaking in a convoy through brash ice

Geology area, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' cladding repairs (026)

2015-16 Artefacts on Wardroom table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

Inspiring Explorers and passengers explore Fortuna Bay (002)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (003)

AHT Heritage Carpenter Martin Wenzel conserving boxes (013)

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