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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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Shelved artefacts in Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2015-16 Stove in Borchgrevink's hut (004)

2019-20 Symington's Pea Soup in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

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

2019-20 Adelie Penguins at Cape Adare (002)

2003-04 Debenham's bunk, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2013-14 Seal near the AHT field camp on Home Beach, Cape Evans

2005 South wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut before excavation

Asbestos removal, stove in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring - Arrol Johnston Wheel (004)

2018-19 Mount Erebus from Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

Breaking the Ice Exhibition walk-through â€“ Wilson's watercolour

Wheelbarrow, Stables of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Main space inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, South-west environs

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

2018-19 Personal artefacts inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, South-west corner

2019-20 Interviewing inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior (008)

Marthe Brendefur on the South Pole Expedition

Winter 2009 The Tenements, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (015)

2013-14 Provisions inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2020-21 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut, hut interior (002)

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

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Ross Sea Party clothing

2013-14 Josiah Wagener emptying cans underneath a fume hood (004)

2006 Snow ingress inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (298)

2018-19 Conservators at Work, Martin Wenzel working with a Venesta case (001)

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

Improvised shelving, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

K172 Winter Conservation Lab Open House (004)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Cold Porch acetylene plant

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Discovery' hut - Ceiling prop, Stove Area

Greenland landscape with Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team member in background

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (034)

2025 Shelf on Simpson's bunk, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Whisky case found at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (008)

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