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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.

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Prime Minister RT Hon Jacinda Explorer Alumni Alexander Hillary and Jaylee Savage

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team organising equipment for the helicopter ride

Sarah Bouckoms with Conor Tulloch and Jane Hamill, Hut Point

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (001)

Young Inspiring Explorers with an image of Antarctic Explorer Carsten Borchgrevink

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team camp on the South Pole Expedition

2010-11 Magnetic hut and Meteorological shelter at Cape Evans

2015-16 Half door from Borchgrevink's Living hut (002)

2005 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

2018-19 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (018)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (027)

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

Artefacts on shelves and bench, Darkroom of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (25)

2014 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, looking East over Wardroom table (002)

Inspiring Explorer Keith Parsons during the crossing

Young Inspiring Explorers pitch their tents (003)

2022-23 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (003)

2019-20 Conservator Nicola Stewart with tent booties donated by Arnold Heine.

2003-04 Chair (with improvised sacking cover) and table in the galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2005 Artefacts outside Ernest Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (005)

Acetylene generator, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, bulkhead artefacts

2006 Progress of removing snow build-up, Cape Evans

2015-16 Borchgrevink's hut brass plaque (004)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (029)

2013-14 Location image, removed artefacts, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (001)

2015-16 Truss four from Stores hut (023)

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

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior on arrival, Cape Royds (005)

West and south elevations, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Al Fastier, AHT's Programme Manager, Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project

Framed photo of Scott Base, Hillary's TAE/IGY hut

2013-14 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior from a time lapse camera (002)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, looking through partition gap

2021 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (015)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (215)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (009)

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