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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

2013-14 Location image, Venesta cases, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (004)

Veranda detail, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (002)

2022 Cape Evans, new artefact finds, pick axe (001)

2018-19 Candles inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2007 Marine Dredge inside Mawson's Lab, Cape Royds

Bird flying over rocky landscapes, South Georgia

2006 North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Zack Bennett with Heritage Carpenter Martin Wenzel and Gabriela Wittmann at the launch of the Scott's 'Discovery' hut Virtual Reality Experience

2014 Last sunset, viewed from Castle Rock

Young Inspiring Explorers Eden, Cooper, and Michael

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, exterior (001)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior, North verandah

2006 Snow build-up along the North wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

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

2010-11 Metal survey artefact image in the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans (024)

2005 Conservators at work, 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (046)

2005-06 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

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

2022 Cape Evans, new artefact finds, polar tent frame object scatter (005)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Stables (004)

2015-16 Al Fastier and TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz (008)

Inspiring Explorers and passengers walk to Shackleton Falls (001)

2005-06 Snow removal from Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, North West corner, Cape Royds

2011 Interesting treatments - Wooden crate of Spratt's dog biscuits (003)

Interior south wall, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Temporary protection frame built for blubber stack, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

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

2009-10 AHT's Lucy Skinner and Al Fastier with excavated whisky crate

2022-23 Conservators at work, Megan Absolon and Jane Hamill, Cape Royds

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, Physical Laboratory

2010-11 Table salt inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (018)

2010-11 A Weddell Seal asleep on the ice (002)

2010-11 Murray's Laboratory inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (002)

2010-11 Artefacts above 'The Tenements' inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2013-14 Detail of awning outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (013)

Northwest corner, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (018)

2019-20 Items moved, possibly due to storm shake, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (006)

2013-14 Nicola Dunn with an Airbus plane on the runway

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Picture board above Oates' bunk

2003-04 Candles stored on Venesta box shelves in darkroom in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

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