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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 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (017)

Coding stripes on cladding, Scott's 'Discovery' hut

2013-14 Scott Base in a condition 2 storm (005)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (64)

2010-11 Metal survey artefact image in the Physical Laboratory, Cape Evans (017)

2025 Galley wall, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Inspiring Explorers Anzac Gallate and Laurette Siemonek

2007 Provisions on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2019-20 Possibly an old Linoleum roll support, re-purposed into something like an instrument screen at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

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

2003-04 Compartment in galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Wool garments, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (025)

2005 Scott's 'Discovery' hut interior, Hut Point (013)

2005 Snow build-up around the North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2019-20 Oxidised metal pails outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (002)

2003-04 Bower's top bunk in the tenements, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2018-19 Flags in the sea ice at Cape Evans

2024 Students participating in a workshop

2005-06 Sleeping bag inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2010-11 Second layer of boxes in the bulkhead, Cape Evans

2019-20 Wooden and metal Venesta boxes of stores near Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut at Cape Evans (001)

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

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (217)

2010-11 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

South side of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and snow wall (001)

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

2019-20 Mess deck in the enlisted men's space (001)

2005-06 Team re-enact Scott's Polar Party image (004)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, interior (007)

2003 K440 at Borchgrevink's Living hut - Interior, stove (002)

2007 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior, main space

2017-18 Antarctic Heritage Trust conservation team members on a hike

Acting Executive Director Francesca Eathorne (003)

2018-19 AHT team walks to work, Cape Evans (002)

2003-04 Cooking racks and poker in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

Detail of skis, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2019-20 Baseline image - Display shelves, Radio room (Room 8), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (007)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2022-23 Socks hanging, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' 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