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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

2019-20 Fodder bales, one ripped, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2006 Conservators at work, Robert Clendon, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2013-14 Location image, artefacts, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2019-20 Food supplies in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (010)

Young Inspiring Explorer Elsie on the high ropes (014)

2009-10 Cape Evans field camp living container view

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior, Hut Point (005)

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (047)

2015-16 Robyn Ryan at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2007-08 Scott's Discovery hut inspection, interior (002)

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - ManatÅ« Taonga (002)

2019-20 Hut inspection - North elevation, Scott's Hut, Cape Evans

AHT Heritage Carpenter Martin Wenzel conserving boxes (014)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (105)

2022 Wind Vane Hill memorial cross, Mount Erebus behind (001)

Southeast corner in Scott's 'Discovery' hut (002)

Inspiring Explorer William Pike taking care of his wellbeing during the descent from Mount Scott

Young Inspiring Explorers orienteering on the Worsley Weekend (002)

2010-11 Nacreous Clouds seen from Scott Base

2014-15 Cape Evans field camp, AHT summer conservation team

2010-11 Two planes on a United States Antarctic Program airfield

2010-11 Artefacts on the Biology table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2022-23 Helicopter delivering artefacts and equipment, Cape Royds

Winter 2009 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (056)

2010-11 Coiled pony wire in the Stables at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

River scene painting by Marcus King, Hillary's TAE/IGY hut (001)

2003-04 Door frame into cold porch, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2018-19 East wall of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2013-14 Location image, artefacts, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (051)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (159)

2016-17, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (027)

Treating Griffiths McAllister tin wrapper (012)

2013-14 Adelie penguin outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 Boxes stacked outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006 Conservators at work, Sarah Clayton Scott Base

Greenland landscape showing undulating terrain

2018-19 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 Galley shelf during repairs, Cape Evans (006)

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