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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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Re-installed cladding, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

Young Inspiring Explorers tour the USAP warehouse (002)

2007 Artefacts on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2003-04 Beneath wardroom table in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2009-10 AHT's Fran Clarke treating acetylene generator, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Shelving in Mawson's Lab, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Inspiring Explorers approaching a pass on their traverse of South Georgia

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

Ideal Milk' in Scott's 'Discovery' Hut (001)

2005 South wall snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006 Shoes stacked on boxes inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 John Taylor in the stables, Cape Evans

2010-11 Boxes repurposed as shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Stores boxes outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2005-06 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, Cape Royds (001)

AHT Lead Conservator Sarah Clayton (002)

Kennels outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Young Inspiring Explorers paddling their rafts on the Worsley Weekend (004)

2013-14 Fire extinguishers inside the TAE/IGY hut, Scott Base

The team of Inspiring Explorers on the Antarctic Peninsula

Bed coverings, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2010-11 Physical Laboratory inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

K170 carpentry team working in a snow storm

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

2018-19 Artefacts stored inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

Winter 2009 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (006)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Bed in Scott's Cubicle

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (168)

Shelved supplies and window on south wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

Latrine area outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

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

2014-15 Cape Evans, conservators at work, AHT's Annick Vuissoz brush vacuuming (002)

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

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (098)

Wardroom table and stove, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2010-11 Physical Laboratory inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (005)

2006 Interior of the AHT Conservation lab at Scott Base (002)

2009-10 AHT's Lucy Skinner working on penguin carcass, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2017-18 Scott Base Magnetic huts, Hut G, interior detail (012)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Galley area artefacts

2019-20 Southern food cache near Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (010)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, Mrs Sam stove

2019-20 Emperor penguin skeletons at Scott's 'Discovery' Hut (001)

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