We are excited to announce that applications for AHT's Inspiring Explorers' Expedition 2019 are now open. This year we are heading back to Antarctica. Participants will explore the Antarctic Peninsula by ship with the opportunity for kayak excursions in Antarctic waters with New Zealand Olympian Mike Dawson and expert guides. Travel via ship from South America across the famed Drake Passage with our partner One Ocean Expeditions. Find out more about how to apply.
We have discovered an almost perfectly preserved 118 year old Edward Wilson watercolour among penguin-excrement, dust and mould covered papers found in an historic hut at Cape Adare, Antarctica.
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Conservators working in Captain Scott’s last expedition base at Cape Evans a century on discovered a small box of photographic negatives. Painstaking conservation work revealed never before seen Antarctic images.
Our members, Antarctic Explorers, are committed to conserve, share and encourage the spirit of exploration.
As a registered New Zealand charitable trust, we welcome your support to save the five historic expedition bases under our care.
They’ve battled hurricane conditions, heavy snowfalls and illness, but the 6-person Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition has reached the finish line of their 560-kilometre crossing of the Greenland ice cap.
Find out moreCheck out the July edition of our newsletter The Explorer to find out all about the completion of the Inspiring Explorers' expedition to Greenland, the Trust's work with UKAHT on Stonington Island and more...
Find out moreThe Trust’s team on the Ice spent three months this summer working to restore Hillary’s Hut and the artefacts inside. Thanks to a successful public fundraising campaign and support from the New Zealand Government the Hut was restored and artefacts conserved in time for Scott Base’s 60th anniversary celebrations in January 2017 . Now painted with its original colours this important piece of Antarctic history stands out once again.
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HILLARY'S HUT WINS DULUX COLOUR AWARD
It’s not every day you get to work in sub-zero temperatures with historic buildings and artefacts. See our cold-climate conservation and carpentry teams in action.
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