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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

2012 Winter Conservation Laboratory 'open house', Scott Base

2015-16 inspection, Scott's Northern Party hut, exterior

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

Old flue section, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Young Inspiring Explorer Kyren uses a sextant

The team pitching three tents on Stoney ground with a bay and mountains in the background

Inspiring Explorer alum Tom McTavish's presentation (001)

Treating Griffiths McAllister tin wrapper (032)

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Royds, Boiled Mutton tin (004)

2022-23 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, interior (019)

2009-10 Brandy crate excavated from underneath Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (032)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (111)

2019-20 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut inspection, exterior (001)

Young Inspiring Explorers with their pitched tent

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, duckboards (004)

2003 K440 at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - Survey of box types (001)

2006 Cape Royds, looking West across the sound

Bed frame belonging George Simpson, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2018-19 Mess Deck table inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2014 Scott's 'Discovery' hut exterior, snow build-up at West wall, Hut Point (001)

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (016)

Conservator Marie-Amande Coignard at work (005)

2005-06 Snow build-up around Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2018-19 Glass bottles inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

Sinéad Hunt and other members of the Inspiring Explorers™ South Georgia expedition on skis

Exterior view of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (010)

2010-11 Bottle in the window, Cape Royds

Inspiring Explorers alumni A'aifou Potemani (004)

2010-11 Artefacts inside the Darkroom in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2003-04 Corner of Oates' bunk in Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2013-14 Josiah Wagener and Lizzie Meek on a walk near Cape Evans

Tins on shelf, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (004)

2009-10 AHT's Martin Wenzel removing ice from Garage area, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2006 Table and artefacts in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2012-13 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, exterior (003)

2017-18 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, exterior, South and West elevations

Inspiring Explorers look at samples on board the 'Magellan Explorer'

Wardroom table, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

2006 Provisions on shelves inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2015-16 Location image - Galley, Borchgrevink's hut (081)

2010-11 Meteorological shelter at Cape Evans

Snow build-up on Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow removal (036)

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