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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

Excavated and stacked Colman's boxes (007)

AHT Conservator Julie Unruh coating dredge

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (331)

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

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Cold Porch works, Junction Box installation

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2019-20 Artefacts requiring treatment - Wheel from Shackleton's car, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (003)

2007 Jars of table salt inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (94)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (025)

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

2005 Portraits of Queen Alexandra and King Edward, Cape Royds

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (014)

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

2010-11 North-East corner of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 Clothing hanging inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

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

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, Mrs Sam stove

2005 Hunters oatmeal tin inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior, snow build-up, North wall

Southwest elevation of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Fry's cocoa boxes and other provisions

2022-23 Medicinal supplies inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (240)

2006 Measuring the footprint of the stove inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2018-19 Physical Laboratory inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (062)

2010-11 Label found on the engine mount box lid, Cape Evans

2010-11 Cooking artefacts on a table in the Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (006)

2020-21 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut, hut exterior (025)

Young Inspiring Explorers bring their raft to shore on the Worsley Weekend (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (23)

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

AHT Conservator Julie Unruh cutting away working on dredge

Final box arrangement, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

K172 Winter Conservation Lab Open House (007)

2003-04 Ceiling and rafters in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (003)

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