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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

2007 Main space inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Discovery' hut - Robinson's "Patent" barley tins, Main Space

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, bunks of Nelson and Day

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, Interior (02)

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

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (008)

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

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (012)

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - 'Tabloid'' Ammonium Per sulphate

2013-14 Nicola Dunn in front of Mount Erebus

Physical lab in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (008)

2008 "Joyce's Skining Academy Free" inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Inspiring Explorer Bridget Kruger pulling sled during the crossing

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (412)

2018-19 Debris swept up inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Wilson and Evans' corner, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut artefact repopulation, Stove Area

2006 Darkroom inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2011 Interesting treatments - Crate of fodder (001)

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

Ice break-out and Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Winter K172 team inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut

2010-11 Munro anemometer inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2013-14 Temporary AHT lighting inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

2022-23 Medical kit after conservation, in situ

2007 Marine Dredge inside Mawson's Lab, Cape Royds

SY 'Aurora's' anchor outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Artefacts in the Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (004)

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Stocked shelving, Ponting's darkroom

West interior wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2015-16 Whale boat and Adélie penguin (001)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Royds, dog collar

Instrument shelter on Wind Vane Hill (002)

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (045)

2006-07 Adelie Penguin outside the South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (054)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (030)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, B.A.E. shore party label

2015-16 Inner door, Borchgrevink's Living hut (003)

2015-16 Adélie penguins at Cape Adare (003)

2010-11 Preserved rhubarb tins inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, Homelight lamp oil box

2022 Meteorological screen, South of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2019-20 Rust patch on wardroom table, Scott's Hut, Cape Evans (005)

Fodder bales on north wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2010-11 North-East corner of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, snow ingress in Annexe

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