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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 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, duckboards (011)

2018-19 Meteorological screen at Cape Royds (002)

2005 Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 Drying the walls of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006-07 Detail of the flue base at Cape Royds

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

2013-14 Colman's boxes stored in the Stables inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Marthe Brendefur during expedition preparations

Medicinal artefacts in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Latrine outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2003-04 Flue in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (016)

2022 Young Inspiring Explorers trying on Antarctic clothing at Canterbury Museum (009)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut interior, Cape Royds (011)

Artefacts on 'Make and Mend' bench, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (013)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (005)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, Cross (006)

Students particpating in rafting activities at the Explorer Conference 2021 (003)

2019-20 Hut inspection - Main Annexe entrance in southwest corner with Mount Erebus beyond, Scott's Hut, Cape Evans

2009-10 Mrs Sam Stove, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2013-14 Artefacts outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2005 Testing the ice depth for the Hägglunds

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (031)

2010-11 Detail of butter box in the stables, Cape Evans (004)

Inspiring Explorer Brando Yelavich during the Greenland Ice Cap crossing

2006-07 South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Bowers' Annexe

2002 K440B at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Bicycle in Annexe

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, duckboards (001)

2005 Artefacts on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2019-20 Mess area in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (091)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (363)

Lead Conservator Sue Bassett at work (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (026)

2010-11 Metal survey artefact image in the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans (023)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, work task, roof during recladding (009)

2010-11 Enamel mugs hanging inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, northwest elevation (003)

2013-14 Kit bag inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

2006 East wall of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2010-11 Venesta case repurposed as a shelf, Cape Royds

2013 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, interior

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (124)

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut stables - pony head protector (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