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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

2006 Building architectural location plan image, Wall 2, Cape Evans

2013-14 Detail of awning outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (009)

John Greenwood, AHT Lead Conservator and Archaeologist (001)

Medicinal artefacts, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

Snow build-up on boxes, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (003)

2010-11 Randy Churchill near the Pressure ridges near Scott Base

Young Inspiring Explorers tour the USAP warehouse (002)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (006)

Pony snow shoes and icy floor, stables of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Snow Removal from Scott's 'Discovery' hut (002)

Erecting Scott Polar tent, Cape Evans (001)

2015-16 Window and biology table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Inspiring Explorer ascending Mount Hodges

2005 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (011)

2019-20 Mess deck in the enlisted men's space (001)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on post, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (003)

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

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior survey image - Construction detail Stables North wall (010)

Latrines and sleds, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2017-18 Scott Base, conservators at work, AHT's Lizzie Meek

2013-14 Skis in the Entranceway of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (007)

Inspiring Explorers kayak alongside Antarctic Peninsula rock face

2006 Al Fastier and Robert Clendon clearing snow at Cape Evans (002)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, conservators at work, Contract Roofer Mike Burgess

2018-19 Bunk inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (012)

Water stop during 'In the Footsteps of Hillary' Expedition of Mount Ollivier (001)

Levick journal found in melt water (005)

2018-19 Wardroom table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2018-19 Nicola Stewart with the Meteorological screen, Cape Royds

2020-21 'Terra Nova' Hut, hut exterior (28)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (254)

2005 Seal blubber, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (009)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (173)

Garage on north side of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Final box arrangement, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2019-20 The latrines at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - ManatÅ« Taonga (014)

2006 Callipers hanging on a post outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2009-10 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection (Sept), exterior (004)

Antarctic Heritage Trust's Executive Director Nigel Watson (006)

2006 Stove area inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (180)

2015-16 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring (068)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' Hut, West Beach Camp (034)

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