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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

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, Interior (010)

Scott's 'Discovery' hut on hut Point (004)

2005-06 Boxes of artefacts packed for transport around Cape Royds

K172 Winter Conservation Lab Open House (023)

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Spratt's biscuits box detail

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

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (123)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (005)

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (021)

2022-23 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (002)

2006 West wall of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2010-11 Metal survey artefact image in the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans (017)

Conservator Marie-Amande Coignard at work (002)

2022-23 Drawings inside Borchgrevink's hut, Cape Adare

Scott's 'Discovery' hut, northeast elevation

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (024)

2009-10 AHT's Fran Clarke playing in Cape Royds landscape

2010-11 Magnetometer stand inside the Magnetic hut, Cape Evans

Dame Patsy Reddy, NZ Governor-General and AHT Patron-in-Chief

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (056)

2009-10 Gibson's quilting during repairs, Stables, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2008 Mutton carcase with Emperor penguin skins and skeletons, store room

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

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (035)

2019-20 Exterior view of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (002)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Royds, tie bolt

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (028)

2013-14 Sea ice breaking up near Scott Base (004)

2010 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior, South wall

2009-10 Stables exterior during rehabilitation work, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Transporting artefacts in cubers over the ice

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (005)

2010-11 Detail of cold porch door, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (221)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (029)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' Hut, hut exterior (17)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior (015)

2010-11 Adelie penguins at the AHT field camp

Inspiring Explorers Sadra Sultani and Ihlara McIndoe kayaking (010)

2010 Lizzie Meek working in the refrigerated container inside Canterbury Museum (004)

2015-16 Micro boring test, truss from Stores hut

2005 Packing artefacts into cubas for transport to Scott Base

Laura Andrews during expedition preparations

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