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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

2017-18 Antarctic Heritage Trust containers at Scott Base

Flour box group, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (004)

2010-11 Al Fastier and John Taylor digging a trench, Cape Royds

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut building survey, interior (045)

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Corroded pick heads and handles, Annex

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (122)

Excavating Bowers' Annexe, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (006)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (005)

2006 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior, snow build-up, West wall

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Evans, pony/mule snow shoe (001)

2018-19 Dog skeleton in the Stables, Cape Evans

2005 Snow ingress inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2010 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (025)

Launch of the TAE Conservation Plan at Parliament

Inspiring Explorers and passengers in a Zodiac, Fortuna Bay

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (002)

2020-21 'Terra Nova' hut Inspection, Interior (036)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Scott's Cubicle

2010-11 Scientific implements inside Scott's 'Tera Nova' hut

2013-14 Blubber stack inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (010)

Physical Lab, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (004)

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

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

2010-11 Bed frame in the Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (004)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (023)

2010-11 Enamel serve ware stored in the Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2017-18 Adélie penguins at Cape Royds rookery

2013-14 AHT team unloading artefacts from cubers, Cape Evans (004)

2019-20 Shovels lined up in Western Annexe of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (005)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (40)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, Cross (009)

Young Inspiring Explorers orienteering on the Worsley Weekend (002)

Snow build-up on Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (004)

2018-19 Lizzie Meek in poor weather, Cape Evans

2013-14 Blubber stove inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2025 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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

Bengt Rotmo and Nigel Watson on the South Pole Expedition

2006 North West corner of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Inspiring Explorer Hollie Woodhouse after the crossing

2003-04 Door to Ponting's darkroom in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

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