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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

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (004)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (017)

2025 Dog skeleton in the Stables, Cape Evans

2010-11 Artefacts in the Physical Laboratory inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2009-10 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Boot and socks

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (018)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Ponting's Darkroom (003)

AHT Conservator Therese Charbonneau treating a cardboard box

2006 Rigging detail from Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2018-19 Stable beam at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior, Hut Point (024)

2013-14 North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, blubber stove

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

Winter 2009 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (007)

2018-19 Skis in the Annexe inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, The Tenements art

2006 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior, snow build-up, main door

2022 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Main Room, 'Cod Roes' tin

2006 Darkroom inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut interior, Cape Evans (001)

2013-14 Josiah Wagener at the summit of Observation Hill

Inspiring Explorers Sadra Sultani, Ihlara McIndoe, Owain John and Anzac Gallate (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Galley stove (008)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on sleeping platform, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (006)

2013-14 Lizzie Meek and Josiah Wagener gathering ice to be melted, Cape Evans

2013-14 Artefacts scattered around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2023 Students build rafts at the Explorer Conference (015)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (090)

2020-21 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut, hut exterior (018)

AHT Conservator Julie Unruh coating dredge (001)

2013-14 Magnetic instruments inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

2005-06 Work details, main door, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (003)

2005 Artefacts on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2019-20 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut inspection, interior (010)

2003-04 Chest containing cheese tins in stables of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2014-15 AHT summer conservators inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (097)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, The Tenements

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Galley table and cooking equipment (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