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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

2012 AHT conservators treating excavated alcohol crates, Scott Base

2007 Conservator Chris Calnan treating a boot

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (001)

Inspiring Explorers and passengers walk to Shackleton Falls (002)

2020-21 'Nimrod' hut Inspection - Exterior (014)

2007 Fodder boxes ready for repair, Cape Royds

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (104)

2010-11 Provisions on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (006)

Inspiring Explorer Isaac Giesen applies ski skins to his skis (008)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, exterior (010)

2019-20 Stacks of nails near Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (004)

2006 Penguin eggs inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Inspiring Explorers look over the King penguin colony, South Georgia

2006 Ice build-up inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (006)

2006 Snow ingress inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

Baking powder tins from Southern Food cache

Treating Griffiths McAllister tin wrapper (020)

2003-04 Atkinson's bunk in the tenements, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (039)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Geraldine cheese, Galley

2006 Snow build-up under the eaves of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (001)

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut at Cape Royds (001)

2013-14 Sea ice breaking up near Scott Base (007)

2019-20 Work task - repaired oil leak on acetylene lighting plant, Scott's hut (021)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' Hut, hut exterior (03)

2014 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, sledges in rafters

2006 Pony snow shoes inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2019-20 A pair of socks and a hot water bottle hanging in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (251)

2010-11 K170 team members near the Cape Royds field camp

Guide Lydia Bradey ONZM and Inspiring Explorer Sarah Magele (008)

Mess Deck looking east, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut dog kennels (013)

2010-11 Brocklehurst's 'leg protector' inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Equipment taken by William Pike on the Mount Scott Inspiring Explorers Expedition™

Inspiring Explorer Millie Mannering looks at kelp in Gold Harbour (002)

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (018)

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

2018-19 Galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, "Homelight" lamp oil box

2003-04 Food supplies against west wall of Galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, Venesta cases along South elevation

2018-19 Bulkhead shelf 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