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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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2008 Cookware on the blubber stove inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut

Inspiring Explorer on a walk to Shackleton Falls

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

Repaired boxes prepared to return to temporary storage (001)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (006)

2010-11 North-West corner of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2009-10 AHT Conservator Lucy Skinner excavating alcohol crates underneath Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2009-10 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (005)

2005 Preparing the snow for the Hägglunds

2010-11 Meal time at the Cape Evans field camp

Medicinal Artefacts, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Table inside Scott's Cubicle in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Heritage Carpenter Jaime Ward at work (002)

2010-11 AHT field camp and Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2018-19 Chart table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut at Cape Evans

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior timber detail

2013-14 Medical supplies inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (008)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Wardroom table artefacts

2019-20 Baseline image - Ibach piano, Mess room (Room 5), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, work task, AHT's Al Fastier recladding roof

Repaired wind vane bracket, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (010)

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

2007 North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Boiled Mutton tin

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut and food depot (001)

2006 Biscuits in a box inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2015-16 inspection, Borchgrevink's hut, exterior

2006 Provisions on shelves inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2019-20 Antarctica NZ Representative Johno Leitch cleans his shoes before landing at Cape Adare

Young Inspiring Explorers Hazel and Kahlen in a Hägglunds

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (407)

2017-18 Thomas Crean letter facsimile (001)

2006-07 Robert Clendon and Al Fastier securing a cuber

Shelf of chemicals on outside wall of darkroom, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Northwest corner, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (001)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Galley stove area

2010-11 Desk in the Geology area inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

The Young Inspiring Explorers beginning a hike

Antarctic Heritage Trust Education team at the launch of the Scott's 'Discovery' hut Virtual Reality Experience

Young Inspiring Explorers™ Caitlin and Eloise learn about little blue penguins behind the scenes at the International Antarctic Centre

2010-11 Annexe door on the West wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Transporting accommodation facilities and mobile conservation lab, Cape Evans

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