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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

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut and Hut Point environs

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (006)

2013-14 Location image, sleeping platform, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2010-11 Candles stacked inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz in Borchgrevink's hut

2010-11 Conservators at work, Diana Komejan and Cricket Harbeck

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

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Shelves in Physical laboratory (003)

2015-16 Robyn Ryan at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut anemometer (006)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (019)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, diesel heater flue, installed after repair and painting

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (228)

2005-06 Antarctic Heritage Trust Field camp at Cape Royds in a storm

AHT Lead Conservator Sarah Clayton (008)

2007 Completed patches on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut cladding

2005-06 Mrs Sam Stove inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2018-19 Mount Erebus from Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2013-14 Josiah Wagener taking readings inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2006 Callipers hanging on a post outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Weather event at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, West elevation

2020-21 Venesta Cases at 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (002)

2003-04 Entrance porch to Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (003)

2010-11 Cross on Wind Vane Hill, Cape Evans

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, Stove Area partition boxes

2014 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point, viewed from McMurdo Station (003)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Blubber stove, Stables East end

2020-21 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut Inspection - Exterior (011)

Ross Sea Party clothing, above blubber stove

2010-11 Socks hanging inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Inspiring Explorer team skiing at Soho Basin (008)

2019-20 Wooden and metal Venesta boxes of stores near Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut at Cape Evans (001)

2019-20 Cape Adare site from the air (003)

2010-11 Glass scientific artefacts inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Photographic supplies in Ponting's Darkroom (002)

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (004)

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, entrance to Ponting's Darkroom

2010-11 Snow build-up around the North wall and stables, Cape Royds

2023 Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna'I speaking at the Explorer Conference (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Galley stove (011)

2010-11 Cocoa tin and box side inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2003-04 Drummond's acetylene gas generator in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Wardroom chair

Students at The Inaugural Young Inspiring Explorers Worsley Weekend (021)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, internal timber supports (030)

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