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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

2007 Conservator Fiona Cahill tries on Antarctic clothing

North side, garage and stable area of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

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

Southeast corner, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, felt (002)

2006 Acetylene generator inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2010-11 Boxes stacked around the Garage area, Cape Royds (003)

Young Inspiring Explorers at the International Antarctic Centre (003)

2011 Interesting treatments - Crate of fodder (002)

2022-23 Conservators at work, Megan Absolon in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Snow build-up on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (007)

2014 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, acetylene generator, Cold Porch

2006 Blubber stove inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (143)

2006 Ice build-up inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (011)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on Table 1, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (005)

2010-11 Detail of Venesta case repairs, Cape Royds (002)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, Men's Room

2013-14 Josiah Wagener and Lizzie Meek with a pulk, Cape Evans

2009-10 AHT's Fran Clarke at Cape Evans field camp

Visiting Ferdinand Magellan statue, Punta Arenas (001)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, lantern slide components

2006-07 Emergency repairs to the Instrument shelter on Wind Vane Hill (012)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (026)

Inspiring Explorers launch the MetService Spotter Buoy from a zodiac (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (051)

2019-20 Work task - repaired oil leak on acetylene lighting plant, Scott's hut (018)

2015-16 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut artefact monitoring (080)

2008 Acetylene Generator inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (050)

2019-20 Dust slide positions - Above Wilson's bunk, Scott's hut, Cape Evans

Inspiring Explorers attempting Pion Peak

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior, felt (005)

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (003)

Snow accumulation at Scott's 'Discovery' hut (003)

Nigel Watson takes a break during the South Pole Expedition

2007 Acetylene generator inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Stores boxes outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (049)

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (030)

2010-11 John Taylor checking the level of the deflection dam, Cape Royds

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