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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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2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut dog kennels (014)

Scott's 'Discovery' hut and McMurdo Station (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut artefact monitoring, exterior (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (153)

Physical lab in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (005)

Snow goggles, clothing and tool belt, Hillary's TAE/IGY hut

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Geology area (004)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, clearing snow (009)

2013-14 Josiah Wagener moving a penguin skin inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' meteorological screen (004)

2007 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut and Penguin colony

2010-11 Contemporary timber box at Cape Royds

2014-14 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, modern post on Eastern aspect (002)

2019-20 Baseline image - Drink powders and scales, Kitchen (Room 6), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (002)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring - Mrs Sam Stove (009)

2017-18 Scott Base, conservators at work, AHT's Diana McCormack

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

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, internal timber supports (018)

2019-20 Cape Adare site from the air (004)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (027)

Cape Evans Bulkhead box repair underway (002)

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

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (97)

2010-11 North-West corner of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 AnemometerÂ used by explorer Sir VivianÂ FuchsÂ to measure wind speed

2014 Scott's 'Discovery' hut exterior, snow build-up at West wall, Hut Point (003)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (172)

Greenland landscape showing undulating terrain and ski tracks

2007 North wall and Stables at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

AHT Conservator Carla Pike treating artefact (001)

Latrine and north side of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

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

2020-21 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut, hut exterior (010)

Inspiring Explorers Laurette Siemonek and Anzac Gallate kayaking (006)

Young Inspiring Explorers with their pitched tent (002)

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