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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

2015-16 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring (066)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (006)

2010-11 Munro anemometer inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2010-11 Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (010)

2017-18 Cape Evans magnetic hut, work task, roof cladding testing (005

2005-06 Position of metal floor panels, Cape Royds (001)

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

2007 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior, snow ingress, main space

2012 AHT's Susanne Grieve treating candlestick holder, Scott Base

Mount Hodges climbing team begin their ascent

2019-20 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut inspection, interior (011)

2010-11 East wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut during the summer season

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (028)

Young Inspiring Explorers learn about Huskies at the International Antarctic Centre (003)

Inspiring Explorers and passengers in a Zodiac, Fortuna Bay

Members of the Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ on their crossing of South Georgia

2010-11 Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (006)

2013-14 Stove before treatment inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (121)

2006 Clothing artefacts on a sleeping platform inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2007 North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (014)

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

2013-14 Plaque next to Wind Vane Hill Cross

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Interior (109)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team crossing the Greenland Ice Cap

2013-14 Location image, removed artefacts, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (005)

2014-15 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior (010)

2010-11 Boxes removed from the stables and garage area, Cape Royds

2018-19 Personal artefacts inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2005-06 Metal floor panels surrounding Mrs Sam Stove, Cape Royds (004)

2010-11 Artefacts inside the Magnetic hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 Baseline image - Screws and brushes, Kitchen (Room 6), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2003-04 Compartment in galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Snow build-up in the stables, Cape Royds

Winter K172 team inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut

Whisky case found at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (002)

2006 Shoes stacked on boxes inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2024 Students participating in a workshop

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (015)

John Greenwood, AHT Lead Conservator and Archaeologist (006)

2017-18 Antarctic field training ice shelter

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (261)

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Stables

2010-11 Corroded wire on fodder bales, Cape Evans

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