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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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2003-04 Bunk and footwear along south wall in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, seal blubber in Physical Laboratory

2020-21 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut, hut exterior (012)

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

2005-06 Removed metal floor panels surrounding Mrs Sam Stove, Cape Royds (001)

Roof detail, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (004)

2015-16 Stove in Borchgrevink's hut (009)

East and north elevations, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2005 South wall, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut before excavation (002)

2005 Hemisine box, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Inspiring Explorer Laurette Siemonek (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (166)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (362)

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

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, seal blubber stack detail

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior timber detail

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, crates of pony snow-shoes (001)

Inspiring Explorers Kelly Davenport and Sacha Cheng

Inspiring Explorer Brando Yelavich masked up from the cold (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (032)

2003-04 Galley, bulkhead wall and bunks of Clissold and Hooper, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Snow build-up, Stables of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2006-07 Conservators at work, Steve Brown at Cape Royds

2010-11 Artefacts in situ in the Stone hut, Cape Evans (008)

2007 Bottles on a shelf inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (122)

Shell Motor spirits box before repatriation

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (25)

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Fry's cocoa tins and box

Snow build-up on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (002)

2010-11 Detail of cold porch door, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2009-10 Opening timber stores box, Cape Royds

2010-11 Loading Hägglunds at Scott Base before travel

Southwest elevation, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2005-06 Position of metal floor panels, Cape Royds (003)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (101)

2019-20 Canvas calf high boots in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

Acetylene plant Gibson Quilting, Cold porch (002)

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