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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

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

Inspiring Explorer Brando Yelavich pulls sled through wind

2010-11 Jamie Clarke and Jaime Ward during Antarctic field training

2018-19 North-East corner of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Home Beach (001)

Bulkhead in Wardroom, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Mike Dawson and Laura Andrews during the South Pole Expedition

2018-19 Clothing hung inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (129)

2013-14 TAE expedition towel inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (074)

Asbestos removal, stove in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (022)

2010-11 West wall and main door of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2022-23 Conservators at work, Megan Absolon and Jane Hamill

2017-18 Cape Adare carpentry workshop turk installation

2002 K440B at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Bicycle in Annexe

2013-14 Scientific supplies inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2007 Acetylene generator inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2015-16 Stove in Borchgrevink's hut (001)

2003 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior - Snow ingress (004)

2013-14 AHT team unloading artefacts from cubers, Cape Evans (002)

Corroded tins of food with coating applied, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut (001)

2013-14 Nicola Stewart during kit out before the Summer season

2010-11 AHT sign on the main door of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Deputy Principal Shauna Eldridge and Inspiring Explorer Jaylee Savage kayaking (003)

2019-20 Cape Adare site from the air (006)

Brick plinth containing Asbestos, Scott's 'Discovery' hut

Sastrugi landscape encounted on the South Pole Expedition

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (093)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (017)

2010-11 Detail of snow build-up on the North wall, Cape Royds

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

Snow drifts at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

Mike Dawson on the South Pole Expedition

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut Western Annexe, cladding (064)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, aerial photo (004)

2015-16 TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz and Lizzie Meek at Cape Adare

2007 British Museum stamp inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow build-up (002)

2006 West wall and main door of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

AHT K172 Team Members at Observation Hill Cross

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (026)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring - Kitchen nomenclature

2003-04 Galley, west wall in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

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