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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

2020-21, Work Task, New Zealand flag installed in Hillary's (TAE/IGY) hut (003)

2005 Price's Motor lubricant inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (050)

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

2010-11 Artefacts in situ in the Stone hut, Cape Evans (015)

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (008)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (96)

Young Inspiring Explorers race their sleds (007)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (151)

2005 Dog Kennels outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Mike Dawson in a plane after the South Pole Expedition

Corroded tins of food with coating applied, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut (002)

2010-11 Large metal vessel inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (032)

Artefacts near Wright's bunk, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Salter Scales after repatriation to 'Discovery' hut (002)

Salter Scales after repatriation to 'Discovery' hut (006)

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

2010-11 Western Annexe door of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (005)

2005-06 Metal floor panels surrounding Mrs Sam Stove, Cape Royds (002)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Royds, Moir's Beef Loaf tin (010)

2005 Wholemeal biscuits box inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Cold Porch of Scott's Northern Party hut at Cape Adare during the 2019-20 season

Drawers under bunk, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2013-14 AHT containers at the field camp on Home Beach, Cape Evans

2006 Provisions boxes in the snow at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2009-10 Historic flue ventilator installation, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's huts - Living hut interior (016)

Young Inspiring Explorers construct a sledge (010)

2003 K440 at Cape Royds - Sea ice in McMurdo Sound

2018-19 Provisions inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (003)

Flue parts, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

Francesca Eathorne and Gemma Wyllie at Fortuna Bay

Inspiring Explorer Lawrence Rothwell at Right Whale Bay

Inspiring Explorer Sam Davis at Soho Basin

2004 K440 at Cape Evans - Boxes of Southern Food Cache (011)

West wall of Galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2002 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, South elevation

2010-11 AHT Team playing Kubb on Christmas Day, Cape Evans (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (126)

2012 Winter, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, environs, instrument shelter (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