Latest News

Read all the latest news on and off the ice.

The Explorer April 2016

May 10, 2016/by Comms

Favourites

By Sue Bassett

During the decade of work by the Trust’s on-ice conservation teams, many personal…

February 22, 2016/by Comms

Inspiring Explorers Expedition a Success

The Antarctic Heritage Trust New Zealand’s Inspiring Explorers Expedition, an international centenary…

November 1, 2015/by Comms

Dogs

By Sue Bassett

While Captain RF Scott wasn’t keen on the idea of using dogs as his main means of…

October 28, 2015/by Comms

Heroic Explorers Inspire a New Generation

The Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expedition 2015 to South Georgia Island left on…

October 17, 2015/by Comms

Prime Minister Launches Conservation Plan

Today, New Zealand Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key has launched the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Conservation…

March 17, 2015/by Comms

Hillary Tractor Secured in Public Private Partnership

A Ferguson tractor, used by Sir Edmund Hillary’s party at the newly-constructed Scott Base during the…

March 13, 2015/by Comms

World-leading Project Saves Heroic Antarctic Legacy

The world’s most extreme conservation project has saved three historic buildings and thousands of artefacts…

January 28, 2015/by Comms

Midwinter

By Sue Bassett

Midwinter is upon us, for those in the southern hemisphere at least. For those…

June 18, 2014/by Comms

Let There Be Light … and Heat!

By Meg Absolon

Let there be light… and heat!

The flick of the switch is usually all it takes…

June 11, 2014/by Comms

Can You Still Tell a Man by His Shoes?

By Stefanie White

My grandmother, my mother and even my best friend have been heard announcing the…

June 11, 2014/by Comms

Dog Biscuits

By Meg Absolon

I’ve been very fortunate since arriving on the Ice to be working in the on-site conservation…

March 7, 2014/by Comms

Shackleton’s Car

By Sue Bassett

When Ernest Shackleton led the British Antarctic ‘Nimrod’ Expedition 1907–09…

February 3, 2014/by Comms

Ross Sea Party Tent

By Sue Bassett

A century on, we continue to share some of the artefacts we’ve treated from Shackleton’s…

June 12, 2013/by Comms

Ross Sea Party Improvised Gear

By Sue Bassett

The artefacts conserved by the Trust that remain in Scott’s Cape Evans hut tell something…

May 27, 2013/by Comms

Pony Snowshoes

By Sue Bassett

When it comes to working with historical material that is only 100 years old, most…

May 22, 2013/by Comms

Shackleton’s Whisky

In January 2010 our conservators found five crates encased in ice under Shackleton's 1908 Antarctic base…

January 31, 2010/by Comms

Cape Evans Stove

By Sue Bassett

While the Trust’s on-ice conservators move the artefacts from the historic expedition…

January 12, 2009/by Comms

Stay in touch

Subscribe to our newsletter

About AHT Our People Latest News Contact Us Image Archive Shop

QUICK LINKS

About AHT Our People Latest News Contact Us Shop Conserve Share Encourage Sustain

Conserve Share Encourage Sustain