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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

2015-16 Location image - Colbeck's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (041)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior, North and West elevations

2014 AHT winter conservators at work - Stefanie White treating pony feed box (001)

2018-19 Venesta cases stacked outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Stables (003)

Inspiring Explorers prepare for their South Georgia expedition at Mount Cheeseman (008)

Young Inspiring Explorer Elsie on the high ropes (019)

2010-11 Jaime Ward repairing a Venesta case, Cape Royds

Wardroom table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Mrs Sam cast iron cooking range in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, flooring (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Wardroom stove (045)

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (020)

2005-06 Boxes along the East wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2009-10 AHT's Lizzie Meek clearing snow from Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2021-22 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (003)

Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut at Cape Evans (009)

2010-11 Artefacts along the Annexe wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2022 Cape Evans, work task, new work identified, Stevenson screen louver (006)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (004)

2019-20 AHT team outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Venesta cases stacked at Cape Royds

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (021)

Wardroom table and stove, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2013-14 Antarctic Heritage Trust container at Scott Base (002)

2019-20 Chocolate and tea in the kitchen of Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

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

2019-20 Mess area in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2010-11 Remains of a Speights barrel outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2007 Box of hops inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (20)

Ponting's darkroom in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior detail, West wall artefacts during snowfall

North end of bulkhead from mess deck, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2003 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Annexe snow ingress (002)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Snow gauge

2009-10 Gibson's quilting before repairs, Stables, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2018-19 South wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Tin and Label detail, before treatment (001)

Matthew Brown, AHT Antarctic Coordinator and Team Leader

2013-14 Lizzie Meek and Josiah Wagener outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, southwest elevation

2010-11 Cross on Wind Vane Hill, 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