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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

Nigel Watson and Bengt Rotmo on the South Pole Expedition

2007 Adelie penguins outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut inspection, interior (019)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (226)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (045)

2010-11 Cricket Harbeck at the Cape Royds field camp

2006-07 Robert Clendon packing artefacts for conservation, Cape Royds (001)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior survey image - Annexe (010)

2010-11 Emperor penguin outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2005 Seal blubber, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2019-20 Food supplies in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (011)

Inspiring Explorer Hollie Woodhouse during the Greenland Ice Cap crossing

2003-04 Bunks and reindeer fur sleeping bags in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (008)

Wardroom table and stove, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Sledge runner attachments outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Royds

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut - Stables, looking East

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (237)

2007 Box of hops inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Fodder bales and stable wall during weather event

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Gord Macdonald, Western Annexe, cladding (125)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (238)

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Galley bulkhead stores boxes (002)

2005-06 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior, Cape Evans (005)

Borchgrevink's Stores Hut at Cape Adare during the 2019-20 season (003)

Members of the Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ encounter whiteout conditions during their ski crossing of South Georgia (001)

2019-20 AHT GM Operations and Communications Francesca Eathorne in Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

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

Ilford camera film cannisters, Hillary's TAE/IGY hut

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (037)

2010-11 Repaired knitwear inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (004)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (123)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Interior (044)

2008 Provisions and boxes inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2010-11 Randy Churchill working on the Latrine, Cape Evans

2019-20 Food supplies in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

Hillary's Hut VR 2.0 Tour - ManatÅ« Taonga (010)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (93)

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (020)

Inspiring Explorers Emily Wilson and Ana Ross (004)

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (008)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior (031)

2013-14 Josiah Wagener at Barne Glacier (002)

2015-16 Location image - Borchgrevink and Fougner's bunks, Borchgrevink's hut

2017-18 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, Stove Area partition boxes

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