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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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2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, floor, Gord Macdonald (023)

2006 Venesta boxes covered in snow outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (002)

2006-07 Robert Clendon and Gord Macdonald at Cape Royds

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (177)

2003-04 Disintegrating Venesta cases at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (012)

2020-21 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut, hut exterior (008)

2021-22 AHT's Nicola Stewart outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, Cape Royds (004)

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior timber detail

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

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, flood damage (01)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Cold Porch works, sub-floor install

Laura Andrews on the South Pole Expedition

Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Vortex generators

2005 Dog skeleton near Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (020)

2010-11 Excavation of cache 2, crate E, Cape Royds (008)

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, conservators at work, AHT's Jane Hamill

2015-16 Borchgrevink's huts and Adélie penguins

AHT Inspiring Explorers viewing Antarctic Peninsula from 'Navigator' deck

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut artefact repopulation, Physical Laboratory

2005 Drainage channel dug along the East wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2019-20 Artefact monitoring - untreated metal above Atkinson's bunk, Scott's hut, Cape Evans (002)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (013)

2012 AHT's Stefan Strittmatter treating weigh scale, Scott Base

2014 AHT winter conservation team reaches milestone (002)

Wool under garment in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, Mackinlay's whisky crate

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, work task, roof during recladding (023)

2015-16 Setting up camp, Cape Evans (002)

Water melter for Gurney's patent stove, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001

Garage on north side of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (008)

K170 Heritage Carpenters with cubers of equipment, Cape Evans

Heritage Carpenters re-installing cladding, east elevation

2012 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, meteorological bench in Physical Laboratory

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (006)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, snow removal, Youth Ambassador Chris Ansin

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior (002)

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