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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

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (419)

2015-16 Stores hut door, Cape Adare (011)

2014-15 Scott Base, AHT's Annick Vuissoz undertaking artefact treatment

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (143)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Ponting's Darkroom (009)

Messdeck, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, pantry artefacts

Galley and stove, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2014 West and South elevations, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2006 Building architectural location plan image, Wall 2, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, floor, Gene Wixson (145)

2013-14 Photography development supplies inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

Moir's meat provisions on shelf in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

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

Laura Andrews with skis during expedition preparations

2013-14 Josiah Wagener and Lizzie Meek with a pulk, Cape Evans

2013-14 South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Wooden framed chair with improvised sacking cover, messdeck

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, seal skeleton (02)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, conservators at work, AHT staff removing snow

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on sleeping platform, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (005)

2018-19 Tents at the field camp at Cape Evans (002)

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

2010-11 View of Mount Erebus from Cape Evans

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, Western Annex artefacts before dust mitigation (012)

Provision boxes and Wardroom, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Cape Royds, Mount Erebus and Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2010-11 Garments on a bunk inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Group photo of the Young Inspiring Explorers with YMCA Instructors (001)

2018-19 Instrument shelter outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2017-18 Cape Evans, Cherry-Garrard's stone hut

2003-04 Bottles and rope on east wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2006 Ice build-up inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (012)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (039)

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior, Hut Point (001)

2010-11 Stamped box inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (126)

2025 North-East corner, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2013-14 Lizzie Meek and Nicola Dunn removing coupons from above Scott's Cubicle

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (259)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, exterior painted text detail (001)

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

2020-21 'Nimrod' hut Inspection - Garage (003)

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