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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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2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Royds, Spratt's dog medicine

Southeast elevation, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2003-04 AHT Heritage Carpenter Michael Powell and contracted Historian David Harrowfield

2010-11 Door pull on the cold porch door, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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

2005 Conservators at work, 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006 Conservators at work, Sarah Clayton, Scott Base

Inspiring Explorer William Pike taking care of his wellbeing during the descent from Mount Scott

AHT Conservator Therese Charbonneau working on Aurora Australis paper (001)

2013-14 Wayfinding flags at the AHT field camp on Home Beach, Cape Evans

2008 Historic provisions boxes at Cape Evans

2010-11 Marmozet Table Salt jars inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Liptons coffee tin, Galley

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

2005 Remains of Wilson's Igloo, Cape Crozier (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (102)

Young Inspiring Explorer Freya building a raft on the Worsley Weekend

2012 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Biology area bench

2007 New shutter installed in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut before artefact repopulation, Main Space

2019-20 A pair of socks and a hot water bottle hanging in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, bunk bedding

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (040)

Bottle on shelf, Scott's 'Discovery' hut

Improvised shelving, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Young Inspiring Explorers ready to race (001)

Bulkhead shelves, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2005 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

Mutton carcases, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (001)

2007 Jars of table salt inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2013-14 Wardroom table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, southeast elevation

2007 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

AHT Conservator Lizzie Meek treating chart paper roll

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (097)

2019-20 Stack of penguin carcasses in stables, Scott's hut, Cape Evans (005)

2018-19 Wilson and Evans' corner inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut at Cape Evans

2017-18 Scott Base, Category 5 material from Cape Adare (018)

2019-20 AHT GM Operations and Communications Francesca Eathorne on vacuuming duty (001)

2019-20 Baseline image - Fuel cans and print, Canopy (Room 3), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2010-11 Medical supplies inside Wilson and Evans' corner, Cape Evans (003)

Snow build-up, east elevation of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Artefacts in situ in the Stone hut, Cape Evans (010)

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