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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

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

2015-16 Stores hut door, Cape Adare (018)

2013-14 Sea ice breaking up, Hut Point (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (35)

2003-04 Broken Venesta boxes along southern exterior wall, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (352)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (006)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, conservators at work, AHT's Al Fastier and Geoff Cooper

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (042)

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior, North-east corner during snowfall (001)

2005 Part of the Backdoor Bay cache, Cape Royds

2009-10 AHT's Martin Wenzel and Fran Clarke outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (040)

2022-23 Provisions on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Trousers on bunk, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2013-14 Location image, fodder bales, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (005)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (114)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Kitchen enamelware, Galley

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (003)

Kitchen, No. 2 President cooker, Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2006 Ice build-up inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (007)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, Interior (01)

2015-16 Location image - Hanson's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (022)

Team equipment buried underneath snow during the South Pole Expedition

2010-11 Skua investigating Depot 2 before excavation, Cape Royds (001)

Day's bunk in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, 'Equality' by Edward Bellamy (002)

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

2006 Artefacts on shelves inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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

Salter Scales after repatriation to 'Discovery' hut (001)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, pony/mule snow shoe (002)

Snow Removal from Scott's 'Discovery' hut (002)

2005-06 Light coming in to the metal floor panels, Cape Royds

Shelves in Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (001)

2006 Conservators at work, Sarah Clayton Scott Base

South Georgia mountainous landscape (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (54)

2008 Artefacts on stacked dog biscuit boxes inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (043)

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

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