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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

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, winter, exterior (005)

2013-14 AHT Conservators outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (357)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (004)

2010-11 Historic midden at Cape Royds (001)

Excavation of Colman's boxes that make up wall of Bowers' Annexe (006)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (016)

2019-20 Artefacts requiring treatment - Tools, Mawson's laboratory, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (003)

2010-11 Garments on a bunk inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2005 One of the 'Aurora' anchors embedded at Cape Evans (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (187)

2018-19 TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (001)

2013-14 Detail of awning outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (009)

2006 Winter-over team with Conservation lab (010)

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

2009-10 Ponting's Darkroom floor during reconstruction, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 "Joyce's Skining Academy - Free' inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (003)

2006 Boots inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (066)

2013-14 Box of packaged test tubes inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2009-10 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior (004)

2006 Light from the window inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2010-11 Al Fastier at the Cape Evans field camp

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

2006 Darkroom inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, bunks of The Tenements

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (005)

2015-16 Borchgrevink's bunk, Borchgrevink's Living hut (004)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, Cross (010)

2020-21 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut Inspection - Exterior (011)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (044)

Snow Build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, north elevation (001)

Levick journal found in melt water (005)

2014 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, games on Messdeck table

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, McDoddies rhubarb tin

2010-11 Physical Laboratory inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2010-11 Conservators at work, Jaime Ward working at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, chain

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

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