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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 Conserved Matchboxes from Cape Royds

2015-16 Location image - Hanson's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (017)

Laura Andrews on the South Pole Expedition

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

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (005)

2005-06 AHT Field camp tents at Cape Royds (002)

2006 West wall and main door of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (067)

Detail of biscuits from Southern Food cache

Snow wall shovelled to protect the team's tents (001)

2010-11 Cricket Harbeck with the Mrs Sam Stove inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, home-made crampons, Biology area

2013-14 Lizzie Meek returning Edward Atkinson's skis, Cape Evans (001)

2009 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (001)

Inspiring Explorer Bridget Kruger during the Greenland Ice Cap crossing

Young Inspiring Explorers™ visiting RNZAF C130 Hercules (008)

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior, Hut Point (006)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Home-made crampons

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (313)

2013-14 Store inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2006 Dog Biscuit box, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (009)

Snow build-up on Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (036)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, work task, roof during recladding (019)

2003-04 Galley and bulkhead wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

Pony artefacts, Stables of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Inspiring Explorers and passengers in a zodiac, Elsehul Bay

2010-11 Bunk frames stacked against a wall, Cape Evans

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (026)

2024 Students participating in a workshop

2019-20 Work Task - Arnold Heine artefact locations, Mitten and gloves, Hillary's room, Hillary's TAE/IGY hut

2016 Monitoring image - candles, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (002)

2006 Measuring the ice thickness for the Hägglunds (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (324)

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

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (199)

2013-14 Meteorological screen and timber fuel boxes at Cape Evans

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

East elevation, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Mike Dawson in a plane after the South Pole Expedition

2010-11 Artefacts on the Wardroom table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (004)

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

Galley shelves, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2020-21 'Nimrod' hut Inspection - Exterior (014)

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