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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

2002-03 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, exterior (103)

2015-16 Microcosmic salt label, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2021 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (016)

Visiting Ferdinand Magellan statue, Punta Arenas (001)

Looking towards stove in the galley from mess deck, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

AHT Conservator Georgina Whiteley treating Brocklehurst's Frame (002)

2007 North wall before patching with sheet metal, Cape Royds

2019-20 Cornflour and egg powder in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Spratt's biscuits box detail

Physical lab shelves, Scott's 'Discovery' hut

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Spratt's diarrhoea medicine

2005-06 Artefacts found under the floor of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

Messdeck table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Blocking installed, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (031)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Stables (001)

Taking paint samples from Observation Hill Cross (001)

Looking west, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2013-14 Nicola Dunn in front of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 Stores hut trusses, as left (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Corrosion (009)

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

2015-16 Location image - Colbeck's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (032)

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

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Stocked shelving, Ponting's darkroom

2002 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - 'British Antarctic Expedition 1907' box (001)

Familiarisation trip at Cape Royds (002)

Adélie penguins on the ice breakout (001)

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (211)

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

2002 K440B at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Ice build-up, lower South wall (003)

Method to separate boxes during excavation of Bowers' Annexe

2007 Box of hops inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, after K441 West elevation

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (037)

2006-07 Natalie Cadenhead updating the Vernon database, Cape Royds

Visiting Ferdinand Magellan statue, Punta Arenas

Snow Build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, north elevation (001)

Snow and ice build up, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

View of the rocky mountains, icebergs, snow and ice (001)

2012-13 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, Latrine (005)

2010-11 Location image of artefacts in Murray's Laboratory inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (147)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (208)

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