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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

2019-20 Remains of one of the Ross Sea party's dogs (001)

2010-11 Blubber stack inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2005 Artefacts on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2012-13 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, door 4

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Wardroom area

Group photo at the USAP warehouse at the Young Inspiring Explorers Summit

2019-20 AHT GM Operations and Communications Francesca Eathorne being interviewed by Alison Balance, Radio NZ

2010-11 Detail of butter box in the stables, Cape Evans (004)

2007-08 Box undergoing repairs, Cape Royds (014)

Venesta cases, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (002)

2018-19 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (015)

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

2006 Conservators at work, excavating Bowers' Annexe at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Main space inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' Hut, hut exterior (05)

2010-11 Dog chain in the environment at Cape Evans

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (002)

2010-11 Lid removed from the engine mount underneath the Physics desk, Cape Evans

2010-11 Butter boxes to be included in the rebuilt bulkhead, Cape Evans

2017-18 Sir Peter Blake Trust Antarctic Youth Ambassador Chris Ansin

2013-14 Conservators at work. Nicola Dunn treating the water tank, Cape Evans (001)

2019-20 Hut inspection - Wardroom table with The Tenements behind, Wardroom (Room 4 Area 8), Scott's Hut

2019-20 Cold Porch of the Northern Party hut (004)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Cold Porch works, Junction Box installation

2019-20 Baseline image - Food scrap hatch and portrait, Mess room (Room 5), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (128)

South Georgia visible from the 'Magellan Explorer'

2002 K440 at Cape Evans - Wind Vane Hill Cross and Mount Erebus

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Physical Laboratory

2006 Walking away from Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (159)

AHT Conservator Nicola Dunn treating kettle

2018-19 Nelson and Day's bunks inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (016)

2015-16 Location image - Evan's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (011)

2013-14 Hägglunds transporting AHT supplies over the sea ice

Ice Build-up on cladding of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

Inspiring Explorers on the ship that took them to Mount Scott in the Antarctic peninsula

2010-11 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and the AHT field camp, Cape Evans

2010-11 Sledges in the rafters inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut inspection, interior (008)

Historic Venesta case in conservation lab (002)

2019-20 Containers at Mario Zucchelli Station

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