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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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Messdeck, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, exterior (015)

2018-19 North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

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

2007 Completed patches on Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut cladding

Box undergoing repairs, Cape Royds (020)

2021-22 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (004)

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (184)

2003 K440 at Cape Adare - Field camp (002)

Inspiring Explorer Leah Stewart with gentoo penguin on Antarctic Peninsula

Latrines and northwest elevation of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Young Inspiring Explorers Eden, Cooper, and Michael

2015-16 View from flight, Cape Adare trip (015)

2022 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior, East elevation

2005 Conservators at work, Robert Clendon, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2010-11 AHT sign on the main door of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Students participating in water based activities at the Explorer Conference 2021 (006)

2013-14 Magnetic instruments inside Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Pram Point

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, conservators at work, Chris Ansin and Al Fastier

Inspiring Explorers alums Sadra Sultani, Laura Andrews and Mike Dawson

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Cold Porch (005)

2022-23 Provisions on shelves inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Instrument shelter, Wind Vane Hill, Cape Evans (002)

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut stables bone handled cork screws

2012 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior, food stores

2006 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, exterior, snow build-up, main door

2019-20 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut inspection, exterior (009)

2013-14 Scott Base buildings, Pram Point

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (009)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (225)

2015-16 The Darkroom, Borchgrevink's Living hut

2022-23 Shelves over the window, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2018-19 Wright and Simpson's bunk inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Snow build-up, southwest elevation of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2010-11 Bunk inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2015-16 Lizzie Meek in Borchgrevink's hut (003)

Young Inspiring Explorers construct a sledge (006)

Wardroom table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (005)

Venesta cases, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

Improvised shelving, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2013-14 Interpretation boards outside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (002)

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