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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

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut at Cape Royds (001)

AHT Lead Conservator Sarah Clayton (007)

Young Inspiring Explorers™ camp names (001)

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

Inspiring Explorer Georgie Archibald kayaking in front of glacier

2013-14 Lizzie Meek and Josiah Wagener gathering ice to be melted, Cape Evans

Francesca Eathorne and Gemma Wyllie at Fortuna Bay

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (028)

2013-14 Bowers' bunk inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

Group photo of the Inspiring Explorer training weekend team (002)

Scott's 'Discovery' hut and McMurdo Station (001)

Provision boxes and Wardroom, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2018-19 Bunks in the Mess Deck inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2013-14 Location image, Venesta cases, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (006)

2006 Conservator Nicola Dunn outside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (002)

West aspect of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

Chairs at 'Make and Mend' bench, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2006 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Wardroom table

2010-11 Toothbrushes mounted above Griffith Taylor's bunk, Cape Evans

Kayakers investigate wreck of the 'Governoren' in Foyn Harbour

2006-07 Underneath Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (007)

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (074)

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior (007)

2015-16 Truss three from Stores hut (013)

Cocoa boxes, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

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

2002 K440B to Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Stores on South wall (001)

Deputy Principal Shauna Eldridge and Inspiring Explorer Jaylee Savage kayaking (004)

2010-11 North-West corner of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (096)

Josefin Bergmark-Jimenez with water colour

2013-14 Location image, removed artefacts, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (006)

2006 Al Fastier and Robert Clendon clearing snow at Cape Evans (002)

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

2006 Neville Ritchie and Al Fastier with final box to be excavated, Cape Royds (001)

2006 Artefact in temporary storage in the AHT container at Scott Base (002)

Brocklehurst's bunk in Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (046)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team on the South Pole Expedition

2013-14 Conserved timber boxes in storage, Scott Base (002)

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (043)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (055)

2002 K440B at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Allen acetylene plant, Cold Porch

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (016)

2006 Hunters Oatmeal boxes stacked inside Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point

2013-14 Location image, Venesta cases, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (013)

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