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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

2014-15 AHT's Al Fastier testing Observation Hill Cross protective cover

2006 Ice build-up inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (010)

2003-04 AHT Heritage Carpenter Michael Powell and contracted Historian David Harrowfield

Kitchen, No. 2 President cooker, Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut

2008 09 Members of the AHT conservation team, Lizzie Meek and Anna Shepherd

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior survey image - Latrine (007)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Western Annexe (018)

2012 Whisky and brandy case assessment (010)

Venesta cases and provision boxes, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, snow removal results (030)

2003-04 Biology area and Wright and Simpson's bunks, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2005 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut interior, Cape Royds (005)

2003-04 Artefacts along wall of Western Annexe of Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut (001)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, internal timber supports (026)

Tins on shelf, Scott's 'Discovery' hut (003)

2020-21 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut, hut exterior (021)

2006 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (017)

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

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut interior, Cape Evans (001)

2010-11 Mount Erebus seen from Cape Evans

2010-11 Snow build-up in the stables, Cape Royds

2006-07 Artefacts excavated from Bowers' Annexe, Cape Evans

2017-18 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, conservators at work, Antarctic Youth Ambassador Chris Ansin

2022-23 Mrs Sam Stove inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2007 Main door inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2008 09 'Nimrod' hut, interior artefacts (050)

2004-05 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut exterior (006)

Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team pulling sleds in windy conditions (001)

Main space, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (001)

2005-06 Metal floor panels surrounding Mrs Sam Stove, Cape Royds (002)

2015-16 Ground anchor, western aspect (001)

2013-14 Photography development supplies inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

Flour box group, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (030)

Physical Laboratory, South-East corner of Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut (001)

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

2006 Bulkhead inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Guests at the South Georgia Inspiring Explorers™ application launch

2002 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, exterior survey image - West elevation detail (001)

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

2019-20 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, interior (004)

2005 Snow build-up, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (001)

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