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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

2018-19 Instrument shelter, Cape Evans (001)

Galley shelves, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2018-19 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut and Mount Erebus, Cape Royds (002)

2006 Bulkhead inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (001)

Audience at 'Hillary's Antarctica' book launch (006)

Inspiring Explorers and passengers explore Fortuna Bay (003)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, felt (001)

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut exterior, Cape Evans

Shelved food tins in Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (020)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team camp on the South Pole Expedition

Rowntree's Cocoa, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Cold Porch works, Junction Box installation

2006 Bottles on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (106)

2013-14 Josiah Wagener testing a penguin skin for arsenic, Cape Evans (004)

Day's bunk in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2003 K440 at Cape Crozier - Remnants of Wilson's Igloo (007)

2009-10 AHT's Gord Macdonald working inside Stables, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2018-19 Latrine outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut at Cape Royds

Snow build-up on Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (003)

2006 Snow build-up along the West wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (009)

2025 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Stacked boxes and blubber stove in Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2005 Cross on Wind Vane Hill, Cape Evans

2002 K440B at Cape Evans - Magnetic hut interior (003)

2008 Stove in the Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior brush and vacuum, AHT's Nicola Stewart (004)

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

2010-11 Conservators at work, Jaime Ward working at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

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

Mike Dawson on the South Pole Expedition

2003-04 Galley and bulkhead wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2013-14 Josiah Wagener with Edward Atkinson's skis before return to the hut (002)

2010-11 Provisions on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2003 K440 at Cape Evans - Southern Food Cache (005)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, The Tenements

Farthing from 1899 from Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Crate for transporting the Acetylene carbide tank, Cape Evans

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (098)

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