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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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2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut interior, Cape Royds (003)

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - ManatÅ« Taonga (014)

Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut at Cape Evans (022)

2012 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Ponting's Darkroom

2006-07 Artefacts excavated from Bowers' Annexe, Cape Evans

2009-10 Stables exterior after rehabilitation work, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

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

Young Inspiring Explorers prepare for evening activities

Camilla Nichol CEO UKAHT and Nigel Watson NZ AHT's Executive Director

Mess room, looking west, Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (001)

2019-20 Items moved, possibly due to storm shake, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

Group photo of Young Inspiring Explorers at the site of Frank Worsley's childhood home (001)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (012)

Inspiring Explorer Hollie Woodhouse and AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson on skis with sleds

2006 Progress of removing snow build-up, Cape Evans

2013-14 AHT site set up around Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, Stables and Garage

2009-10 Cape Evans, Stables rehabilitation - Stables North wall (130)

2005 Burroughs Wellcome & co bottle, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2018-19 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008 Artefacts outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (006)

2022 Cape Evans, new artefact finds, copper lid (002)

2007 Robert Clendon with a found artefact, Cape Royds

2005 Doug Rogan outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Galley (017)

2018-19 Panorama of Barne Glacier and Mount Erebus, Cape Evans (003)

2017-18 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, conservators at work, Contract Roofer Mike Burgess

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (003)

2019-20 View from the Xue Long Icebreaker

2006 Ice build-up inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (004)

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

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Wardroom table, looking West (002)

2023 Laura Andrews with students at the Explorer Conference

Inspiring Explorer Mele Fetu'u kayaks near Antarctic peninsula

2018-19 Blubber stack inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2010-11 Randy Churchill near the Pressure ridges near Scott Base

2005 Al Fastier and Robert Clendon during a snow storm at Cape Evans

2013-14 South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Inspiring Explorers and passengers on a walk

2013-14 Paper artefact before conservation inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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