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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

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (004)

River scene painting by Marcus King, Hillary's TAE/IGY hut (001)

2010-11 Desk in the Geology area inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (269)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, diesel heater flue, installed after repair and painting

Heritage Carpenter Jaime Ward at work (002)

Inspiring Explorer Emily Wilson searches for an avalanche transceiver (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (035)

2010-11 Southern food cache, Cape Evans (008)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (029)

2008 09 Members of the AHT conservation team, Lizzie Meek and Anna Shepherd

2005 Snow build-up around the North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2009-10 AHT's Fran Clarke and Lizzie Meek excavating coal briquettes, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Young Inspiring Explorers TÄmati and Maddy wearing USAP gear

2013-14 Josiah Wagener and Lizzie Meek on a walk near Cape Evans

2019-20 Remnants of rope implanted amongst the rocks

2003-04 Base of flue penetration through stables roof of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Enamel mugs hanging inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2019-20 Baseline image - Drink powders and scales, Kitchen (Room 6), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (002)

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (025)

K172 Winter Conservation Lab Open House (007)

2006 Snow ingress inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow build-up (006)

2010-11 Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, looking East

2010-11 Thread and string inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2006 Conservators at work, Sarah Clayton, Scott Base

Northwest corner, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2019-20 Artefacts requiring treatment - Soup tins, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (070)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (012)

Inspiring Explorer Sarah Magele, Inspiring Explorers alumni Jaylee Savage and A’aifou Potemani (002)

Artefacts on shelves and bench, Darkroom of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2019-20 Antarctica NZ Representative Johno Leitch cleans his shoes before landing at Cape Adare

Two Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team members set up a tent in the wind

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (62)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2012-13 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, door 5 (002)

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

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