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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.

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2010-11 Jamie Clarke and Jaime Ward at the entrance to an ice cave

2010-11 Mrs Sam Stove inside Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2019-20 Antarctica NZ Representative Johno Leitch securing the unloaded materials

2018-19 Galley inside Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

Inspiring Explorer Laurette Siemonek (005)

2010-11 Cross on Wind Vane Hill, Cape Evans

2002 K440 at Cape Evans - Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and Mount Erebus

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans, flood damage (08)

Brando Yelavich presents a workshop at the Explorer Conference 2021 (016)

2013-14 Location image, artefacts in the Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' hut, Hut Point (003)

2005 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut and South stores

2002 Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, interior - 'British Antarctic Expedition 1907' box (001)

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, interior artefacts (107)

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

Shelved artefacts in Physical Laboratory, Scott's 'Discovery' Hut

2004-05 Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, work task, snow build-up (016)

Stevenson's screen near Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

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

2015-16 Stores hut trusses, as found (004)

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

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

2019-20 Hillary's TAE/IGY hut inspection, exterior (007)

2007 Robert Clendon removing ice from the latrine, Cape Evans

2025 Shelf on Simpson's bunk, Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut

Inspiring Explorers Sadra Sultani and Ihlara McIndoe

Group photo at Department of Conservation sign (001)

Scaffolding and work underway on East elevation (003)

2015-16 Mess tent and Apple hut, Cape Adare

2005 Dog skeleton near Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut, Cape Evans

2008-09 'Terra Nova' hut, General exterior (054)

2007 Conservators at work, Gordon Macdonald at Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

Young Inspiring Explorers with their pitched tent (002)

2015-16 External artefacts at Cape Adare (007)

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

Detail of skis, Scott's 'Terra Nova' hut

Southeast corner, Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut (001)

2010-11 North wall of Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut, Cape Royds

2003 K440 at Granite Harbour - Sled remnants near Granite House (015)

2005 Al Fastier at the 'Terra Nova' hut after the third snow removal

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