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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

2007 K170, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Wardroom, looking east

John Greenwood, AHT Lead Conservator and Archaeologist (001)

2019-20 Baseline image - Fuel cans and print, Canopy (Room 3), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2013-14 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2013-14 Mark Adams and Al Fastier removing a vortex generator from Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, flood damage (05)

2010-11 Bulkhead inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2013-14 Location image, sleeping platform, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

Nigel Watson on the South Pole Expedition

Stove in the galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2012 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, food stores

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut artefact repopulation, Store Room

Young Inspiring Explorers™ Amy and Audrey help pitch a tent they will sleep in as part of their Antarctic experience

2005 Snow build-up around the North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Dog biscuit box inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2010-11 Diana Komejan packing historic provisions into bags

Al Fastier, AHT's Programme Manager, Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project

2018-19 Fuel stores boxes, Cape Evans (015)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (029)

2010-11 Meteorological screen interior, Cape Evans

2010-11 Christmas morning at the Cape Evans field camp

Treating Griffiths McAllister tin wrapper (029)

2013-14 Medical supplies inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2005 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2013-14 Lizzie Meek working inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2010-11 Acetylene lamp base inside the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans

Snow build-up on Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2003-04 Cartoons affixed to wall of the tenements, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2015-16 TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz and Al Fastier, Stores hut

Guide Lydia Bradey ONZM and Inspiring Explorer Sarah Magele (004)

K172 Winter Conservation Lab Open House (021)

2010-11 Artefacts on the Wardroom table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

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

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

2018-19 Refitting shutters on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2010-11 Medical supplies inside Wilson and Evans' corner, Cape Evans (001)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team shovelling snow (001)

2015-16 Stores hut trusses, as found (012)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (352)

2010-11 Shelf repurposed from a Venesta case, Cape Royds

2021-22 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (393)

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