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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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2008-09 AHT Heritage Carpenter Gene Wixson

2010-11 Timber boxes stacked at Cape Evans

Millie Mannering, Sam West and Kelly Davenport

2003 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Indian Mule names (010)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (048)

2022-23 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (359)

2019-20 Baseline image - Display shelves, Radio room (Room 8), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (009)

2025-26 Interior, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Bed frame belonging to Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2014 East elevation, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006 Weathered timber on the exterior walls of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (99)

Inspiring Explorer Keith Parsons controlling a drone

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (028)

2010-11 Cooking artefacts on a table in the Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (006)

Stromness whaling station, South Georgia (001)

2005 Cross on Wind Vane Hill, Cape Evans

2013-14 Location image, Venesta cases, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (016)

2009-10 Darkroom chemical bottles, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

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

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, floor, Jana Stefan (039)

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (019)

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Cast iron Gurney's Patent stove (001)

2003-04 Compartment beside stove in galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (005)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, Cape Royds (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (65)

Homelight oil box in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2015-16 Helicopters picking up people and gear (001)

2007 Conservator Chris Calnan treating a boot

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, North and East elevations

2015-16 Location image - Colbeck's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (007)

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

2021 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (010)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, South elevation

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (412)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (034)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Skis and tools, Annexe (002)

2010-11 Fodder bales stacked outside the Stables, Cape Evans

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut survey, interior (010)

Primus burner in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2009-10 Stables interior during rehabilitation work, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Snow build-up around Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (003)

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