Welcome to Antarctic Heritage Trust
Welcome to the home page of the Antarctic Heritage Trust (New Zealand) - the non profit acknowledged internationally as the organisation responsible for the care of the expedition bases associated with the first explorers of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.
Our Misson:
To conserve the expedition bases associated with Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Carsten Borchgrevink;
Educating and inspiring future generations to go out and explore and discover.
Latest News
Virtual Tours. Take a peek into how the explorers lived by taking a first generation virtual tour (Quicktime) of the expedition bases as they look today.
Matched Funding Challenge. Read about the funding challenge which sees every dollar raised for the campaign to save Captain Scott's iconic base at Cape Evans matched up to £1M.
Blogging. Read about the lives of our team working and living year round in Antarctica as they work on the Trust's conservation programme. Hosted by the Natural History Museum (London) are updated twice weekly and have already received over 400,000 visits.
Read the latest edition of our newsletter Heritage Hearsay (June 2008).
Christchurch Antarctic Festival September 2008. Check out details on the Antarctic Festival being hosted in Christchurch, New Zealand 26 Sept - 03 October 2008.
Salute to Adventure - the Frank Worsley Story. In August 2008 the Akaroa Museum (New Zealand) opened a permanent exhibition acknowledging the remarkable life of Frank Worsley. As the skipper on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17) he was responsible for navigating a small life-boat 800 miles across the southern ocean to safety after the expedition's ship the Endurance sank.
YouTube. Watch a musical tribute to Captain Scott.
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