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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

Bed frame and bunk in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2005-06 Snow removal from Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, North West corner, Cape Royds

North wall Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2005 Penguin eggs inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior - Snow Ingress (006)

2010-11 Detail of butter box in the stables, Cape Evans (008)

2010-11 Group of Adélie penguins travel past resting Weddell Seals (001)

2003-04 Arrow International's Noel Saxon (001)

2022-23 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (096)

2010-11 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (007)

2007 Provisions on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, exterior (008)

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

2002 K440B to Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior - Stack of tins (002)

Griffith Taylor's bicycle, Annex of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior survey image - Latrine (014)

2010-11 A group of Adélie penguins coming 'ashore' at Home Beach, Cape Evans (003)

2015-16 Programme Manager-Artefacts Lizzie Meek

2006 Artefact in temporary storage in the AHT container at Scott Base (008)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' Hut, hut exterior (14)

2006 Conservator Nicola Dunn outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (002)

2018-19 Wardroom, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and the AHT field camp

2015-16 Field camp wannigan interior, Cape Evans (004)

Physical Laboratory, South-East corner of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2008 Provisions and boxes inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2016 Monitoring image - Venesta cases, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (375)

2007 AHT Conservators visit Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut artefact repopulation, Main Space

2010-11 Dog Skeleton in the stables at Cape Evans

2019-20 Work task - repaired oil leak on acetylene lighting plant, Scott's hut (019)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Light switch above Make and Mend table

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (280)

2010-11 Photographic supplies on the shelves within the Darkroom, Cape Evans

2015-16 Al Fastier and TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz (002)

Inspiring Explorer Sadra Sultani assisting students with raft building

2015-16 Stores hut trusses, as found (007)

Medicines and shelving in Evans' and Wilson's corner

2007 Shackleton's Nimrod' hut in the landscape at Cape Royds

Meares' and Atkinson's bunks, Tenements of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

penguins and winter awning, south Elevation, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (001)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior, South wall

2005 Dog skeleton near Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008 09 AHT Heritage Carpenters Gord Macdonald, Gene Wixson and Martin Wenzel

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