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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

2018-19 Metal artefacts inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

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

2019-20 AHT and Antarctica New Zealand Staff at Mario Zucchelli Station

2006 Bulkhead inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Fuel boxes outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Southern food cache, Cape Evans (007)

2015-16 Location image - Borchgrevink and Fougner's bunks, Borchgrevink's hut (017)

2019-20 Baseline image - Electric stand mixer, Kitchen (Room 6), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (002)

2005-06 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Entrance roof before work

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's huts - Living hut interior (074)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Gordon Macdonald, building evaluation (010)

Galley artefacts in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (008)

Winter 2009 Atmospheric Landscape, Sun dog (027)

2005-06 Artefacts found under the floor of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2015-16 TorbjÃ¸ern Prytz inspecting floor

2009-10 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (006)

Trying out the Virtual Reality experience of Hillary's Hut (007)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (003)

2006 South-East corner of Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2007 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Corrosion (010)

Acetylene piping Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (004)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, timber headboard

2008 "Joyce's Skining Academy Free" inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

R. Bell & Co's matches, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Summer team with flags and cargo, Cape Evans

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior (013)

2019-20 Remains of one of the Ross Sea party's dogs (002)

2007 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior, snow ingress, main space

2006 Snow build-up along the North wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2018-19 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (007)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (009)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, McDoddies rhubarb tins

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, East elevation

Water melter for Gurney's patent stove, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001

2013-14 Kit bag inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (017)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior (003)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, internal timber supports (029)

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

2003-04 Food supplies in pantry of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (005)

2019-20 Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut at Cape Evans (005)

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