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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

2018-19 Fuel stores boxes, Cape Evans (012)

2022-23 Artefact monitoring, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (042)

Baking powder tins from Southern Food cache

2010-11 Artefacts outside the West wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2013-14 Location image, artefacts, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (035)

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut stables - pony head protector (003)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (052)

2006 Conservator Robert Clendon treating an artefact in the Conservation Lab

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Wardroom table

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, conservators at work, AHT staff removing snow

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (096)

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

Canvas ceiling and wall lining, Scott's 'Discovery' hut

Detail of skis, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2006 Winter-over team with Conservation lab (010)

2013-14 Light going down behind Castle Rock

2013-14 Hägglunds travelling over a crack in the sea-ice (002)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on sleeping platform, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (003)

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (016)

2013-14 Scott Base and McMurdo Station sign

2010-11 New Latrine roof cladding installed, Cape Evans

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (012)

2010-11 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (061)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, exterior (002)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, before K441 Flue

2010-11 Plane flying over McMurdo Station

2010-11 Diana Komejan excavating deposits at Cape Royds

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

2013-14 Awning outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (008)

2016-17, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (031)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (110)

2019-20 AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson cleaning his shoes before landing at Cape Adare (001)

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

AHT Conservator Jane Hamill in the photo lab (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (054)

2007 Conservators on a Ski Doo snowmobile

2010-11 Scott Base pressure ridges (004)

2010-11 Square oil tins in the cold porch of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2010-11 Whisky crates and packing materials, Cape Royds

2019-20 Baseline image - Shacklock 501 range, Mess room (Room 5), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

Biology table from above, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2018-19 AHT team walks to work, Cape Evans (002)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, Mackinlay's whisky crate

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut interior, Cape Evans (002)

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