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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 building survey, interior (043)

2010-11 Medical supplies inside Wilson and Evans' corner, Cape Evans (001)

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, conservators at work, AHT staff removing snow

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

2019-20 Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut at Cape Evans (004)

2006 Snow build-up along the North wall of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2014 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, games on Messdeck table

2013-14 AHT Conservators outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

Breaking the Ice Exhibition walk-through â€“ Northern Party clothing (001)

Make and Mend table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2008-09 'Terra Nova' deflection dam, Al Fastier (011)

2005-06 Mrs Sam Stove inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2015-16 Stove in Borchgrevink's hut (007)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, area adjacent to Latrine

2009-10 Transportation - AHT's Lucy Skinner and Rob McPhail

Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut at Cape Evans (005)

2014-15 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior, Biology area bunk

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior (017)

2015-16 Location image - Colbeck's bunk, Borchgrevink's hut (041)

2013-14 Nicola Stewart during kit out before the Summer season

2020-21 'Nimrod' hut Inspection - Exterior (005)

2002 K440B to Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Improvised shelves

AHT Programme Managers Al Fastier and Lizzie Meek

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, seal skeleton (04)

Andrew Cleland, CEO Royal Society, Garth Carnaby AHT Trustee and Sir Chris Mace

2018-19 Sastrugi formations on the sea ice, Cape Evans (002)

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (009)

2019-20 Francesca Eathorne outside Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (004)

2019-20 Baseline image - Butter and other food products, Kitchen (Room 6), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (002)

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

Scene from Fortuna Bay, South Georgia, with King penguins and elephant seals in the foreground and mountains in the background

2017-18 Scott Base Magnetic huts, Hut G, interior detail (012)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (007)

2010-11 Cocoa tin and box side inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Heritage Carpenters Ted Bugg and Bryce Lewis, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut

Anemometer, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (007)

2019-20 Baseline image - Communications equipment, Radio room (Room 8), Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut (013)

2020-21 Replacing the rigging on Ernest Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (033)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (015)

2006 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut interior, Cape Royds (003)

2006 Table outside the Darkroom door inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

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

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior - West wall of Stables

2010-11 An Emperor penguin at Cape Evans

2015-16 Stores hut trusses, as found (009)

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