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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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Greenland landscape with Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team member in background

2009-10 Lamp on Wardroom table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2019-20 Cold Porch of the Northern Party hut (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (176)

2005 One of the 'Aurora' anchors embedded at Cape Evans (002)

2013-14 Location image, fodder bales, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (018)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (175)

2010-11 Artefacts surrounding Bowers' bunk inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (003)

2009-10 AHT's Gene Wixson working on Stables North wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Artefacts outside Ernest Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2005 Hoar frost in the ceiling, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Acetylene piping Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (004)

2006 Snow build-up along the East wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2015-16 Micro boring test, truss from Stores hut (002)

2006 Wilson and Evans' bunks inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2003-04 Cartoons affixed to wall of the tenements, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2009-10 Wind Vane Hill cross, Cape Evans

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

Inspiring Explorer Hollie Woodhouse pulling sled on skis (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (182)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (258)

2022-23 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (013)

2007 Large iceberg off the coast of Cape Royds

Laura Andrews with skis during expedition preparations

Summer 2012-13 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (008)

Interior of Field Conservation Work Area

Inspiring Explorers prepare for their South Georgia expedition at Mount Cheeseman (008)

Tools and implements, latrine of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

The 'In the Footsteps of Hillary' expedition team (003)

2009-10 AHT's Gord Macdonald on satellite phone at Cape Evans

2013-14 Location image, biscuit boxes, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2013-14 Lab gear radio 2209 inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

North elevation, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (004)

Painting the roof of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (007)

Ihlara McIndoe speaking at the 'A Musical Journey to Antarctica' concert (008)

Group photo at 'Hillary's Antarctica' book Launch

Audience at 'Hillary's Antarctica' book launch (006)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut North wall during snow removal

2013-14 Radio room inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (129)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (001)

2006 Snow ingress inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2007 Damaged cladding marked for repair, Cape Royds

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