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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

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (028)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, Main room

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (195)

2019-20 Stack of penguin carcasses in stables, Scott's hut, Cape Evans (001)

Northwest elevation of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Mount Erebus

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

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, work task, AHT staff recladding roof (011)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (119)

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

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, felt (002)

2010-11 Kitchen at the Cape Evans field camp

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (019)

2010-11 Tack hanging inside Mawson's laboratory, Cape Royds

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (040)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, Interior (04)

Table salt jars, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Wilson and Evans' corner (002)

Old flue section, roof of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Jamie Clarke outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (144)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (016)

2003 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior - Snow ingress (008)

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior, Hut Point (022)

2006-07 Artefacts excavated from Bowers' Annexe, Cape Evans

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

2005-06 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, North roof before work (002)

2018-19 Day's bunk inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, duckboards (004)

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

2010-11 Metal tools in the cold porch of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2015-16 Location image - Colbeck's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (003)

2005 Interior ice build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (21)

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

2010-11 Wind Vane Hill Cross, Cape Evans

2018-19 Roof space inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

Bulkhead and shelves, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, east and north elevation

Marthe Brendefur with an ice heart on the South Pole Expedition

2010-11 Bread pans in the galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2024 Students with completed scaffolding bridge

2006 Landscape on the way to Cape Royds (011)

2019-20 Baseline image - Food scrap hatch and portrait, Mess room (Room 5), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (001)

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Nelson and Day's bunkbeds

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (257)

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