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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 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (61)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (172)

2015-16 Location image - Colbeck's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (006)

Cocoa and sugar in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (050)

2009-10 Ponting's Darkroom during ice removal, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (005)

2018-19 Bulkhead shelf inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Jagged Antarctic Peninsula ice bergs on calm grey day

2006 Penguin eggs inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2007 Main space inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, Mrs Sam stove

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (032)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (324)

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

Bed frame from Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2010-11 Bunk inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Rykien Amiatu and Cole Yeoman standing with Shackleton

2017-18 Scott Base, Category 5 material from Cape Adare (018)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (409)

2013-14 Venesta case outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (002)

Tinned food near Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2016-17 AHT's Doug Henderson working on the exterior of Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Scott Base

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut stables - pony head protector

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior, Main space

2006 Interior of the AHT Conservation lab at Scott Base (007)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Cape Evans environs

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, area adjacent to Latrine

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Wardroom table

Antarctic Heritage Trust Executive director Nigel Watson looks at the route ahead as the Inspiring Explorers team land at the foot of Mount Scott

Farthing from 1899 from Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, conservators at work, AHT's Nicola Stewart

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (93)

Young Inspiring Explorers with their pitched tent (001)

2014 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, reindeer skin boots hanging in Annex (002)

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, southeast elevation

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - ManatÅ« Taonga (010)

2010-11 Artefacts outside the West wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2018-19 Panorama of Barne Glacier and Mount Erebus, Cape Evans (006)

Chris Cochran, Rosalie Brown and Anna Clare

2013-14 Paper artefacts being conserved in the field camp, Cape Evans (004)

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