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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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2007 Conservator Fiona Cahill removing a wrapper

Richard McElrea former AHT Chair and Former AHT Chairman David Crerar greeting geologist Arnold Heine (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (089)

2008 Skua with historic food provisions, Cape Evans

Mike Dawson and Nigel Watson packing at Union Glacier

Wardroom in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (028)

2012 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Barne Glacier

2010-11 Acetylene lamp base inside the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans

2019-20 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut inspection, interior (007)

2010-11 Meteorological screen and timber boxes at Cape Evans

2005-06 Skua atop an AHT tent, Cape Royds

2022 Cape Evans, new artefact finds, polar tent frame object scatter (005)

2003-04 Galley and bulkhead wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (004)

2013-14 Josiah Wagener testing a penguin skin for arsenic, Cape Evans (010)

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

2018-19 Physical Laboratory inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2019-20 External fretting Venesta cases, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (012)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring - Mrs Sam Stove (004)

2006 Venesta cases in snow outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (335)

2015-16 Truss five from Stores hut (002)

Part of the Winter conservation team with Program Manager Lizzie Meek

2024 Students take part in white water rafting during the Explorer Conference

2006-07 AHT Field camp at Cape Royds (004)

Coleman's' flour box bulkhead, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2018-19 Conservators at Work, Martin Wenzel working with a Venesta case (002)

2009-10 Stables interior during rehabilitation work, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2003 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Mrs Sam stove (003)

2005 Adelie Penguin colony at Cape Royds

2003 K440 at Cape Evans - Field camp (002)

2006 Aurora anchor outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2019-20 Hut inspection - Messdeck table and back of stove, Messdeck (Room 4 Area 1/7), Scott's Hut

2007 Stacked candles inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Acetylene plant

2010-11 Icicles on the Stables cladding at Cape Evans

2005 Part of the Backdoor Bay cache, Cape Royds

2013-14 Stove after treatment inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Western Annexe (022)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (47)

Tent poles attached to wall of Annex, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut interior, Cape Royds (010)

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