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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

Snow Removal from Scott's 'Discovery' hut (004)

2018-19 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut and Mount Erebus, Cape Royds (001)

North elevation, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, conservators at work, Conservation Ambassador Diana McCormack

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (015)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Geology area (002)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

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

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (213)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (081)

2003 K440 at Cape Adare - Borchgrevink's Living hut and Warning Glacier

2007 Edgeworth-Davies marine dredge, Cape Royds

2010-11 Darkroom inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 John Taylor removing platform supports over the blubber pile

2006 Provisions boxes stacked inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2013-14 Josiah Wagener at the summit of Observation Hill

2013-14 Seal near the AHT field camp on Home Beach, Cape Evans

Sir Neville Jordan, former President of the Royal Society, Lady Diane Jordan and AHT Patron Bob Norman

2015-16 Temporary repair, loft window (002)

Young Inspiring Explorers lining up (006)

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Boric Acid medicine bottle

Artefacts in Darkroom, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut survey, exterior (024)

Young Inspiring Explorers Worsley Weekend group photo (003)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, dog collar and chain (002)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (043)

Blubber stove, stables of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

K172 gear kit-out at Antarctica New Zealand warehouse (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (038)

2006 Interior of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

Northwest elevation of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Snow ingress inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2020-21 Venesta Cases at 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (004)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (027)

2018-19 South wall window of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (343)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova hut, snow build-up on North elevation

2007 Medicines on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Carbide tank from Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2022-23 George Murray Levick's sledge distance meter wheel in situ

2024 Students take part in white water rafting during the Explorer Conference

2019-20 Mario Zucchelli Station, Antarctica (011)

2010-11 Detail of butter box in the stables, Cape Evans (005)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (010)

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