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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

2002 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior - East and North elevations

2019-20 Symington's Pea Soup in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, conservation work

2010-11 View of Mount Erebus from Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (044)

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (011)

2013-14 Beach at Cape Evans in front of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Provisions on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

Inspiring Explorer Bridget Kruger pulling sled during the crossing

2010-11 Artefacts outside the West wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2009-10 Cape Evans, Stables rehabilitation - Stables North wall (026)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior, North and West elevations

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (016)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts on sleeping platform, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (003)

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

2022 Young Inspiring Explorers visit the Antarctica New Zealand offices (005)

AHT Lead Conservator Sarah Clayton (002)

2006 Conservators at work, Sarah Clayton Scott Base

2020-21 Venesta Cases at 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (005)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (191)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (364)

Young Inspiring Explorers Catherine and James on the high ropes course (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (229)

2010-11 Boxes stacked around the Garage area, Cape Royds (002)

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, after K441 Window exterior

2013-14 Scott's 'Discovery' hut after a snowfall, Hut Point

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior (010)

2020-21 'Nimrod' hut Inspection - Exterior (010)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (033)

2018-19 Skis in the Annexe, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

2003-04 Artefacts and supplies in galley, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Corrosion (031)

Drainage trench at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut, south elevation

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (032)

West elevation, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2013-14 AHT team taking Hägglunds transport from Scott Base (004)

2006 Al Fastier and Robert Clendon clearing snow at Cape Evans (001)

2020-21 Scott's 'Discovery' hut Inspection, exterior (003)

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior, North elevation

Laura Andrews speaking, South Georgia Inspiring Explorers™ application launch (005)

2006 Removing Mutton Cutlets from can (002)

Venesta and provision boxes, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Axe on wall in Western Annexe, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2015-16 Detail of Stores hut door hardware

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