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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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2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (339)

Penguin carcasses and artefacts at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, conservators at work, AHT conservation team members

2010-11 Al Fastier digging a trench at Cape Royds

Lizzie Meek at Scott's 'Discovery' hut (001)

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - Dulux Head Office (003)

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

2010-11 AHT Timber supplies stored at Cape Evans

2013-14 Josiah Wagener testing a penguin skin for arsenic, Cape Evans (008)

2010-11 Bulkhead inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (005)

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's huts - Exterior (002)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (008)

2025 Fodder bales, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2003-04 Broken Venesta boxes along southern exterior wall, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

Inspiring Explorers alumni Jaylee Savage and A’aifou Potemani reach summit (001)

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (006)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (016)

Young Inspiring Explorer Rose using sextant

2015-16 View from flight, Cape Adare trip (035)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (111)

2019-20 Artefacts requiring treatment - Marine dredge, Mawson's laboratory, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, reworking ground gradients

2005 "Joyce's Skining Academy - Free" inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Acetylene piping Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (006)

2005 Base of Observation Hill Cross (001)

2013-14 Artefacts in storage in a container, Scott Base (001)

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior, Hut Point (003)

2003-04 Food supplies against west wall of Galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

Trying out the Virtual Reality experience of Hillary's Hut (010)

2006 Interior of the AHT Conservation lab at Scott Base (006)

2018-19 Roof space inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (008)

South wall, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2016-17, Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (007)

2025 Stove inside Borchgrevink's hut, Cape Adare

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

2013-14 Nicola Dunn with an Airbus plane on the runway

Dr Gabriela Roldan presenting to Young Inspiring Explorers (005)

2019-20 AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson cleaning his shoes before landing at Cape Adare (001)

2017-18 Cape Evans, Cherry-Garrard's stone hut

2005-06 Antarctic Heritage Trust Field camp at Cape Royds

2005 Part of the Backdoor Bay cache, Cape Royds

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Physical laboratory table

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut interior, Cape Royds (004)

AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson and SEHC teacher Caragh Doherty in tandem kayak (002)

The Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team did the Martial glacier walk behind Ushuaia on their way to the Antarctic Peninsula

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