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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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2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, before K441 South East elevation

2019-20 Artefacts requiring treatment - Wheel from Shackleton's car, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (003)

2022-23 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (009)

AHT Conservator Therese Charbonneau working on Aurora Australis paper (001)

Excavation of Colman's boxes that make up wall of Bowers' Annexe (006)

2002 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, South elevation

2019-20 Hut inspection - Bunks of Day and Nelson, Biology area (Room 4 Area 5), Scott's Hut

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Acetylene plant (002)

SY 'Aurora's' Anchor outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

Corroded tin of asparagus with coating applied, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2006 Dog biscuit box inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2018-19 Galley stove inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2018-19 Fuel stores boxes, Cape Evans (006)

Mike Dawson on the South Pole Expedition

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (030)

Inspiring Explorers and passengers explore Fortuna Bay (002)

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (233)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (352)

2010-11 Helicopter collecting supplies from Cape Evans

Kevin de Silva in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, Cape Royds (011)

Laura Andrews and Mike Dawson pitching a tent on the South Pole Expedition

2010-11 Al Fastier, Jamie Clarke, and John Taylor preparing to go underneath the hut

2006 'The Tenements' inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

The physical laboratory, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2020-21 Artefacts on shelves in the Radio Room (003)

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (003)

2006 East wall of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (178)

Water melter for Gurney's patent stove, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (003

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, artefacts North of Latrine

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow ingress (014)

2008 North wall of Scott's 'Discovery' hut

2019-20 External fretting Venesta cases, AHT Programme Manager Al Fastier, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2005-06 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, North roof before work (001)

2015-16 Location image - Colbeck's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (034)

The bunks of Day and Nelson, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2015-16 Location image - Hanson's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (017)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

Bengt Rotmo and Nigel Watson on the South Pole Expedition

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