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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

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's Living hut - Interior, stick-back chair

Battens after repair, Shackleton's 'Nimrod Hut' (003)

Nelson and Day's bunks, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Light coming through the window Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 Stove in Borchgrevink's hut (011)

2007 Gordon Macdonald opening a crate, Cape Royds

2006 Snow ingress in the Annexe of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 Mess deck in the enlisted men's space (001)

2018-19 Biology bench inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (043)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Geology area (001)

2017-18 Cherry-Garrard's stone hut and Scott's 'Terra Nova hut

2010-11 Megaphone in Scott's Cubicle inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2015-16 inspection, Stores hut, exterior (001)

2005-06 Work details, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (005)

2004 K440 at Cape Evans - Boxes of Southern Food Cache (004)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Wardroom stove (029)

2007 Adelie penguins outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Flying box, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

The blubber stove in Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, before K441 South elevation

2019-20 Equipment inside Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Wilson and Evans' corner (003)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (035)

2019-20 Chocolate and tea in the kitchen of Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

Snow mitigation at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (002)

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Antarctic Skua flying above

Snow Removal from Scott's 'Discovery' hut (001)

2014-14 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, modern post on Eastern aspect (003)

2019-20 The physical laboratory in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Mount Erebus

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (042)

AHT ED Nigel Watson and Mike Dawson on Deception Island

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

2005 West wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2025 Maia Ingoe recording Ngawai Clendon

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut and Mount Erebus

2015-16 Helicopter picking up gear (002)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, leather boots (001)

2002-03 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, exterior (104)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (002)

Flue parts, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Galley stove (054)

King penguins at St Andrews Bay, South Georgia (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (268)

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