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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

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, bicycle in Stables (001)

2007 Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2007-08 Scott's Discovery hut inspection, exterior

John Greenwood, AHT Lead Conservator and Archaeologist (001)

2010-11 View from the tent at the Cape Evans field camp

2018-19 Debris swept up inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2010-11 Barrel hoops outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (002)

2006 Interior of the AHT storage container at Scott Base (010)

2002 K440B at Cape Evans - Magnetic hut interior (003)

2005 Mrs Sam Stove inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Snow build-up on flue parts and sleds on west wall (001)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, snow removal, Youth Ambassador Chris Ansin

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2010-11 Diana Komejan excavating historic provisions

Inspiring Explorers Te Aroha Devon and Jenny Sahng taking readings in Godthul

2010-11 Murray's Laboratory inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2019-20 Food supplies in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (010)

2010-11 Boxes stacked outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006-07 Robert Clendon packing artefacts for conservation, Cape Royds (003)

2003 K440 at Cape Evans - North-west hut corner, Mount Erebus beyond (001)

2019-20 Shovels lined up in Western Annexe of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson setting up camp

2015-16 inspection, Borchgrevink's hut, interior

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Biology area bunks

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior - Meteorological screen (001)

2013-14 Hägglunds transporting AHT supplies over the sea ice (002)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, 'Equality' by Edward Bellamy (002)

2009-10 Antarctic Heritage Trust Summer Conservator Lucy Skinner (009)

2019-20 Boxes of dog biscuits at Scott's 'Discovery' Hut (001)

Excavating Bowers' Annexe, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

Hearson's patent biological incubator (001)

King penguin colony, South Georgia (003)

Bulkhead shelves, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (002)

2002-03 Dog skeleton, north side of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Medicines and shelving (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Gord Macdonald, Western Annexe, cladding (125)

2010-11 Brocklehurst's leg protector inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2003 K440 at Cape Evans - North-west hut corner, Mount Erebus beyond (002)

Presentations onboard the 'Magellan Explorer' (002)

Winter 2009 Atmospheric Landscape, Sun dog (027)

2006 Artefacts on a table inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (029)

Young Inspiring Explorers use 'My Explorer Journal' with Inspiring Explorer Sadra Sultani (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