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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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Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2019-20 Baseline image - Tools and safety clothing, Cold porch (Room 4), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (002)

2009-10 AHT's Gene Wixson working on Stables North wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Acetylene piping, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2022-23 Drawings inside Borchgrevink's hut, Cape Adare

2010-11 Southern food cache, Cape Evans (003)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (014)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (018)

2009-10 Members of the AHT summer conservation team at Cape Royds

Northeast elevation, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Medicines and shelving in Evans' and Wilson's corner

2016 Monitoring image - salt jars, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2007 Damaged cladding on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (049)

2006 Provisions boxes in the snow at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

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

Inspiring Explorer Kelsey Waghorn in Godthul

Inspiring Explorers alumni Jaylee Savage tackling the rocky slope (001)

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (136)

Scoria spread on snow, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2010-11 'Thistle' firebrick inside the Magnetic hut, Cape Evans

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

Provision boxes making up the bulkhead between rooms, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2005 Artefacts wrapped and packed for transport to Scott Base

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (354)

2007-08 AHT Programme Manager Al Fastier measuring ice depth

Provision and Venesta cases, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 View from the tent at the Cape Evans field camp

2017-18 Scott Base, conservators at work, AHT's Lizzie Meek

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, artefacts above Shackleton's room

AHT Conservator Nicola Dunn treating kettle

2010-11 Diana Komejan and Jaime Ward inspect motor oil boxes, Cape Royds

Northwest elevation of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2013-14 Hillary's room inside the TAE/IGY hut, Scott Base

Rykien Amiatu and Cole Yeoman standing with Shackleton

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (018)

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