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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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2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (012)

Table in mess deck area, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (213)

2015-16 The Cape Adare huts and penguin colony (001)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Exterior (008)

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

Marthe Brendefur with an ice heart on the South Pole Expedition

2014-15 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior (014)

Shelves in the bulkhead, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (003)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (071)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (46)

Wardroom looking east, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, southwest elevation (001)

2013 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, interior (002)

2019-20 Cold Porch of the Northern Party hut (005)

Inspiring Explorers Emily Wilson and Ana Ross (004)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Wardroom stove (010)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (417)

Bare wall before box placement, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2018-19 Homelight box inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (002)

2010-11 Trench dug for the deflection dam, Cape Royds (001)

2013-14 Artefacts outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2010-11 Detail of butter box in the stables, Cape Evans (002)

East stables wall, boxes partially removed

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on post, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (001)

2013-14 Conserved timber boxes in storage, Scott Base (002)

2010-11 Jaime Ward and John Taylor in the field camp kitchen

2013-14 Medical supplies inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (003)

2007 Steve Brown working on the door replacement, Cape Royds

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

2010-11 "BAE Shore Party" written on a box, Cape Evans

2003-04 Food supplies against western wall of Galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2019-20 External fretting Venesta cases, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (006)

Exploring the brash ice and icebergs (001)

2015-16 Working in Borchgrevink's hut (004)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (119)

Inspiring Explorers Programme Manager Mike Barber

2018-19 Debris swept up inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2017-18 Scott Base Magnetic huts, Hut G, interior detail (012)

Heather Spencer experiencing the VR (001)

Asbestos removal, stove in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

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