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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 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (027)

Snow build-up on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (007)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (350)

2015-16 TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz wood testing (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (202)

2006-07 Extent of area to be excavated, Cape Evans

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

2015-16 Flue parts by Northern Party hut, Cape Adare (001)

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - Shirley Library (002)

2010-11 Detail of butter box in the stables, Cape Evans (003)

Mike Dawson on the South Pole Expedition

Inspiring Explorers and passengers meet a Leopard seal (005)

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (003)

2015-16 The Cape Adare huts and penguin colony (002)

2010-11 Artefacts in situ in the Stone hut, Cape Evans (006)

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

2019-20 The blubber stove at Scott's 'Discovery' Hut (001)

2020-21 Replacing the rigging on Ernest Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (018)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Magnetic hut

King penguin colony, Right Whale Bay, South Georgia (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, winter, interior (003)

Winter 2009 Winter Conservation lab (001)

2015-16 Loft window before blocking removed

2018-19 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (028)

Fry's cocoa boxes, Galley of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Inspiring Explorer A'aifou Kaufusi-Potemani (014)

2018-19 Fuel stores boxes, Cape Evans (008)

2010-11 Artefacts outside the West wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (037)

2010-11 Al Fastier and John Taylor working on the East wall, Cape Evans

Pony names, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

Latrines and northwest elevation of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, Primus stove

2005-06 Snow removal from Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, North West corner, Cape Royds

2013-14 Water tank inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (004)

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

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (102)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (030)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2013-14 Interior of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (001)

2010-11 A Weddell Seal asleep on the ice (001)

Repaired bracket section from Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

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