Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ Ross Sea Antarctica

The Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team who will be heading to Antarctica. L-R: Jake Bailey, Calum Turner, Lucy Hayes-Stevenson, Louise Piggin, Kitiona (Billy) Pelasio, Daniel Borstein, Maia Ingoe, Ngawai Clendon.

Expedition Dates

7 January – 4 February 2025

The Trust is excited to announce the eight young explorers who will walk in the footsteps of Scott and Shackleton and experience the Antarctic landscapes that challenged and inspired them.

The group, aged 16-35 from New Zealand and Australia, will join the tenth Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ which will travel to the Ross Sea region with Expedition Partner Heritage Expeditions, into the beating heart of Antarctic exploration and the focus of the Trust’s conservation efforts.

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Starting the great south journey, Shackleton, Scott and Wilson, 2 November 1902. R W Skelton photograph. © Canterbury Museum

Thanks to our donors we taking a team of Inspiring Explorers™ aged 16-35 on Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ Ross Sea Antarctica, tracing the paths of legendary Antarctic explorers to mark the tenth anniversary of the Inspiring Explorers™ programme.

This exciting journey with Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ Partner Heritage Expeditions will immerse our Inspiring Explorers™ in the history of legendary Antarctic explorers like Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Carsten Borchgrevink, and Sir Edmund Hillary. As guardians of their iconic expedition bases, the Trust is thrilled to bring Inspiring Explorers™ to the historic huts for the first time, bridging past and present, while passing along our expert knowledge of conserving Antarctica’s rich cultural heritage to the next generation.