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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

2013-14 Sun halo over Scott Base buildings

2006 New AHT sign to be installed at Hut Point

North stack fuel cache, Cape Evans (012)

2010-11 Cricket Harbeck and Diana Komejan carrying artefacts, Cape Royds

South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

Improvised shelves, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2007 Felt boots found at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Hobart mixer, Kitchen in Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (029)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (011)

Detail of biscuits from Southern Food cache

2005 Snow build-up around the stables, Cape Evans

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's huts - Living hut interior (016)

West wall and stables, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2015-16 Al Fastier and TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz (007)

2007 Acetylene generator inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Bengt Rotmo and Nigel Watson on the South Pole Expedition

2013-14 Buildings on one of the USAP airfields

Preparing ground ahead of installing waterproof membrane

2005 Price's Motor lubricant inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - North shelves, Ponting's Darkroom

2013-14 AHT Team with Vince's Cross, Hut Point

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

2013-14 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Barne Glacier, Cape Evans

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

Inspiring Explorer Lana Kiddie-Vai standing on rocks

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's huts - Living hut interior (077)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut interior, Cape Royds (006)

2013-14 Radio room inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

Excavated boxes emerging, Bowers' Annexe

2012 AHT staff preparing field camp during overnight stranding at Cape Royds

2018-19 AHT field camp container, Cape Evans (004)

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Darkroom

2019-20 Opened preserved cabbage tin and oxidised kettle

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (118)

2006 Conservators at work, Nicola Dunn opening a can, Scott Base (001)

Group photo at the International Antarctic Centre at the Young Inspiring Explorers Summit (001)

2022-23 George Murray Levick's sledge distance meter wheel

2006 Stores boxes outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

Bed frame belonging to Edward Nelson, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

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