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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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2010-11 Communications equipment inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - 'Tabloid'' Ammonium Per sulphate

2013-14 Detail of cladding outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2010-11 Martin Wenzel and Randy Churchill working on the Stables roof

2005 Conservators at work, 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006 South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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

2015-16 West window, Borchgrevink's Living hut (009)

2006 Penguin eggs inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Stores boxes in Stables (002)

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior detail

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior - Meteorological screen (001)

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (142)

Sleeping platform and artefacts in Scott's 'Discovery' hut

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, looking through partition gap

2012-13 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring - changing bag

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Wardroom table

2007 Philippa Durkin on Antarctic Field Training

2007 North and East walls of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (260)

Excavated and stacked Colman's boxes (003)

AHT Conservator and Programme Manager Lizzie Meek at Wind Vane Hill Cross

2014 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, reindeer skin boots hanging in Annex (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, Interior (06)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (028)

Group photo of the Inspiring Explorer training weekend team (002)

2017-18 Antarctic Heritage Trust Heritage Carpenter Geoff Cooper

2003-04 Beneath wardroom table in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, Garage area

2019-20 Baseline image - Tools and safety clothing, Cold porch (Room 4), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (002)

Inspiring Explorer Anzac Gallate and penguin pal

Detail of Venesta case to be repaired (001)

2019-20 Boxes of dog biscuits at Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2003 K440 at Cape Royds - David Harrowfield and snow drift on wannigan

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

Mattress on Day's bunk, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Young Inspiring Explorer Catherine uses a sextant

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