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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

2011-12 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior

2013-14 Location image, Mutton carcasses, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

2015-16 Artefacts on Wardroom table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2006 Conservator Nicola Dunn inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (006)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (30)

Fixed Butynol valance at base of south wall, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Emperor penguins at St Andrews Bay (005)

2003-04 Box containing straps (the same type used for fastening tools to wall), Western Annexe, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2024 Students take part in white water rafting during the Explorer Conference

2003 K440 at Cape Evans - North-east corner, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Stencilled box (001)

2010-11 K170 team on a walk near Cape Royds

Inspiring Explorers and passengers explore Fortuna Bay (002)

2010-11 Wooden Geraldine cheese box, Cape Evans

2015-16 inspection, Borchgrevink's hut, exterior (011)

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

Throwing boiling water into freezing air

2010-11 Image of a woman with two children inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior (005)

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior detail, fodder bales during snowfall

2013-14 Cold Porch, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Young Inspiring Explorers with Inspiring Explorers™ Alumni and William Pike

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Galley (001)

Snow build-up, southwest elevation of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (010)

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (155)

East stables wall, boxes partially removed

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring - candles (002)

2019-20 Exterior snow clearance at Scott's Hut, Cape Evans (008)

2005-06 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, lab roof before work

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, seal blubber in Physical Laboratory

2013-14 Josiah Wagener tipping out scoria gravel at Cape Evans

2018-19 Colman's bulkhead boxes inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2003-04 AHT technical conservation Adviser Julian Bickersteth (002)

Dust mitigation, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (012)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (031)

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

2019-20 Hut inspection - Wardroom table with darkroom beyond, Wardroom (Room 4 Area 8), Scott's Hut

2015-16 Temporary repair, loft window (001)

Wool garments, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (009)

Snow build-up on Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (007)

Inspiring Explorers and 'James Caird' replica lifeboat (002)

West wall and latrines, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2013-14 AHT team unloading artefacts from cubers, Cape Evans (002)

Southeast elevation of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

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