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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

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut before artefact repopulation, Main Space

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, area adjacent to Latrine

2022-23 Mrs Sam Stove inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2019-20 Cape Adare site from the air (004)

2019-20 Artefacts requiring treatment - Tools, Mawson's laboratory, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2015-16 Al Fastier and TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz (006)

Mike Dawson on the South Pole Expedition

2019-20 Work Task - Arnold Heine artefact locations, Leather boots, Hillary's room, Hillary's TAE/IGY hut

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on sleeping platform, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior on arrival, Cape Royds (006)

Price's candles, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Audience at 'Hillary's Antarctica' book launch (004)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (068)

2021-22 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, conservators at work, AHT's Jane Hamill (003)

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

2019-20 Work task - repaired oil leak on acetylene lighting plant, Scott's hut (012)

Laura Andrews speaking, South Georgia Inspiring Explorers™ application launch (006)

2010-11 Rowntree's cocoa tins inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, South and East elevations

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Discovery' hut - "Homelight" lamp oil box, Main Space

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, Cross (011)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, artefacts on Wright's bunk

2010-11 Reams of paper stacked on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2010-11 Repaired knitwear inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

Messdeck looking east, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2006 Snow ingress in Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (010)

Inspiring explorers taking a break on a pass on their South Georgia crossing

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (270)

2005 Acetylene Generator inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2013-14 Observation Hill over McMurdo Station

Inspiring explorers fighting to manage their climbing skins while taking them off in the wind during their crossing of South Georgia

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Blubber stove

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (025)

Mount Hodges climbing team on skis (002)

Dr David Harrowfield, Former AHT Trustee and geologist Arnold Heine (001)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Stocked Galley shelves (007)

2009-10 AHT's Al Fastier digging trench for deflection dam, Cape Evans

2019-20 Conservator Nicola Stewart chipping ice (001)

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

Winter 2009 AHT Conservator, Becky Cameron (002)

2018-19 Provisions inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (003)

Bed frame belonging George Simpson, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (029)

K172 Winter Conservation Lab Open House (008)

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