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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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Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2012 Cape Royds meteorological screen, South-west of hut

2010-11 An Emperor penguin at Cape Evans

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, artefact monitoring, compressed hops

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (026)

2007-08 AHT Programme Manager Al Fastier removing snow

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (037)

2013-14 Awning outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (007)

2010-11 View from Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut towards Mount Erebus

2010-11 Jamie Clarke and Jaime Ward during Antarctic field training

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Galley area artefacts

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (007)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Cold Porch works, after contemporary outer Cold Porch removal

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (045)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team taking a break

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's Living hut - Interior, Must's bunk (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (090)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Western Annexe (021)

Snow Build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2010-11 Artefacts in the main space of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (034)

2015-16 West aspect, Borchgrevink's hut (001)

Laura Andrews on the South Pole Expedition

2013-14 Drilling holes to measure ice thickness (004)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior detail, flue and ventilator during snowfall

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (088)

2018-19 Boxes inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

Two Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team members set up a tent in the wind

Flue section and liner, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (009)

2007 Completed patches on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut cladding

2018-19 Mount Erebus from Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (023)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, work task, AHT's Al Fastier during roof recladding

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Exterior (007)

2019-20 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut inspection, exterior (005)

2010-11 Detail of butter box in the stables, Cape Evans (008)

Former AHT Trustee Dr David Harrowfield and AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson

2021-22 Open water in front of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut , Cape Evans

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