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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

2021-22 Scott's 'Discovery' hut, interior, stores in Main Space (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Discovery' hut inspection, winter, exterior (004)

2013-14 Wayfinding flags at the AHT field camp on Home Beach, Cape Evans

Venesta cases and shelved artefacts, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

2017-18 Annual artefact monitoring programme, Cape Royds, Kippered Herrings tin (004)

2016-17, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut inspection, interior (028)

2006 'The Illustrated London News' inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (009)

Inspiring Explorer Hollie Woodhouse during the crossing

2003 K440 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, interior - Galley provisions and cases forming bulkhead

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, Cross (001)

2010-11 AHT team meeting before deployment to the field

2004-05 Helicopter and Mount Erebus (001)

2009-10 Ponting's Darkroom floor during reconstruction, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Inspiring Explorer alum Tom McTavish's presentation (001)

Acting Executive Director Francesca Eathorne (003)

Battens after repair, Shackleton's 'Nimrod Hut' (007)

2016-17 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut, Cold Porch works, sub-floor install

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, Corrosion (007)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (156)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, inspection (25)

2006 Boots inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (001)

2015-16 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut inspection, exterior (013)

2007 Artefacts inside Scott's Cubicle in Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2007 K170 at Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut stables - pony head protector (009)

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

2018-19 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans (002)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (288)

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

2006-07 Charley Brentnall and Steve Brown at Cape Royds

2002 Sledge and runners against Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

2021-22 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, interior (015)

2006-07 Excavating Bowers' Annexe, Cape Evans

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut conservation (022)

Inspiring Explorers Emily Wilson and Ana Ross (004)

Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, northwest aspect

2005-06 Sleeping bag inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds (002)

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, exterior (007)

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