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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

2019-20 Large sled at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Scott Base building overseer Randall Heke and AHT Chair Mark Stewart (001)

2019-20 Acetylene generator at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2003 K440 at Cape Evans - Wind Vane Hill Cross

2015-16 Truss five from Stores hut (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (356)

2010-11 Cooking artefacts on a table in the Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (007)

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

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (035)

2009-10 Stables area of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2010-11 Diana Komejan photographing artefacts inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2009-10 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and fodder bales in snow

2015-16 Stores hut trusses, as found (016)

2019-20 Stack of penguin carcasses in stables, Scott's hut, Cape Evans (003)

2003-04 Chest containing cheese tins in stables of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Snow Build-up, North aspect of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2019-20 Conservator Nicola Stewart chipping ice (001)

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, veranda and post detail

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (385)

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (014)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Annexe (008)

2015-16 Loft window, Borchgrevink's Living hut (014)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Interior (047)

2012 Winter Conservation Laboratory 'open house', Scott Base

Antarctic Heritage Trust's Executive Director Nigel Watson (006)

Exterior view of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (010)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (003)

2013-14 Location image, Venesta cases, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (014)

2002 K440B to Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Main room bunks (001)

2010-11 Al Fastier treating a timber box outside, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (359)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Cape Evans environs

2019-20 Cold Porch of the Northern Party hut (002)

2010-11 Iceberg frozen in the sea ice, Cape Evans

2006 Conservators at work, Al Fastier, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2006 Wooden boxes inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2002 K440B to Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Murray's Laboratory (001)

2006 Signature inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (007)

2008 Artefacts inside the Darkroom of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Mess area in the Cape Evans field camp

2006 Ice build-up inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (015)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (175)

Trousers on bunk, 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