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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

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (003)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, conservators at work, Antarctic Youth Ambassador Chris Ansin

2010-11 Provisions on shelves in the galley, Cape Evans

Darkroom in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (003)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on Table 1, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

2006 East wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

The Inspiring Explorer team eat out in the Antarctic

Scott's Cubicle, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2006 Seal carcass and awning outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

Brenda Farrell, Peter Macdonald, Jan Fullerton and Fred Davey

2015-16 Stores hut trusses, as left (004)

2019-20 Cape Adare team with the Xue Long helicopter

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

Wardroom, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

Snow build-up on artefacts and Annexe wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (121)

2010-11 Cherry-Garrard's bunk inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2018-19 Mount Erebus from Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

South side of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and snow wall (001)

Deteriorated binding of Pearson's Magazine

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring - waistcoat (002)

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, northwest elevation

2017-18 Cape Adare camp, polar pod installation

Garage and kennels, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (035)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, Cape Royds (006)

Venesta case shelving in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

Before Treatment image - Corroded tin of mushrooms

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, interior, Mess Room

2018-19 AHT team member walks across the sea ice, Cape Evans

2013-14 Paper artefacts being conserved in the field camp, Cape Evans (004)

Repaired wind vane bracket, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, South and East elevation

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Morse key on Make and Mend table

2017-18 Antarctica New Zealand Cape Adare camp put in team

2010-11 Sea ice breaking up in North Bay

Snow build-up on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (006)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (007)

2012 AHT 'Conservators at Work' - Gretel Evans, Winter Conservation Laboratory (004)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (001)

Hammer and pipe on shelf, Scott's 'Discovery' hut

Inspiring Explorer Emily Wilson searches for an avalanche transceiver (003)

2017-18 Scott Base, Category 5 material from Cape Adare (018)

Launch of the TAE Conservation Plan at Parliament (002)

2010-11 Bottles in a window of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

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