January 2013
Shackleton’s whisky update: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has returned 3 bottles of more than 100-year old whisky to the Antarctic Heritage Trust in Antarctica. He is pictured handing over the whisky to Antarctic Heritage Trust Trustee Rob Fenwick.
November 2012
Scott’s Last Expedition, the museum exhibition, opened at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand on 23 November 2012. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Antarctic Heritage Trust, Canterbury Museum and Natural History Museum, London.
July 2012
The Antarctic Heritage Trust is excited to be partnering with Google’s World Wonders Project to keep alive the inspiring stories of the historic explorers and to showcase the Trust’s conservation work at these iconic sites.
June 2012
Smithsonian magazine relives Shackleton’s epic endurance expedition and profiles Jane Ussher’s stunning photographic work published in Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton.
January 2012
Antarctic Sun editor Peter Rejcek interviews the Trust’s Programme Manager about the complexities involved in preserving the past, conserving the heroic era bases in the Ross Sea Region.
Read about the grandson of British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott in Antarctica to mark the centenary of his grandfather and four team members reaching the South Pole 100 years ago on 17 January 1912.
Listen to Radio New Zealand's Summer Report marking the 100th anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott's trip to the South Pole.
Listen to Radio New Zealand's Summer Nights interview ahead of the centenary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaching the South Pole, his grandson has returned to Captain Scott's Terra Nova hut to work on its conservation.
December 2011
Read the Trust’s statement on the support it will receive from Norway for the Cape Adare conservation project.
Read New Zealand Prime Minister John Key’s statement about the Norwegian Government’s decision to work with the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust on the Cape Adare conservation project.
Read about Captain Scott’s grandson, Falcon Scott, joining the conservation team at Cape Evans this season.
June 2011
Read about Scott's Last Expedition, an international touring museum exhibition due to open at the Natural History Museum, London on 20 January 2012.
April 2011
Read how Whyte & Mackay has successfullly recreated the century-old whisky buried under Sir Ernest Shackleton's base at Cape Royds, Antarctica.
January 2011
Read BBC News Scotland's article about the whisky returning to Scotland for scientific analysis.
November 2010
Read about our international partnership to tour Scott's Last Expedition, an expedition about Captain R F Scott's race to the South Pole.
August 2010
Read the Trust media release - Shackleton's whisky revealed or view the TVNZ article.
July 2010
Read the Trust media release or The Press article regarding Shackleton's century old whisky being thawed and conserved.
February 2010
Read the Trust media release or TVNZ article about the century old whisky and brandy crates excavated from under Sir Ernest Shackleton's base.
January 2010
Read National Geographic's online article about Captain Scott's base at Cape Evans.
Listen to David Attenborough speak about Captain Scott's base on BBC's Radio 4.
December 2009
Read the call for support to save Captain Scott's base at Cape Evans. The Independent.
Read about the 100 year old butter recently found at Captain Scott's base at Cape Evans. Times Online.
Watch a newsclip about the butter find on New Zealand's TV One News.
See photos and hear Emily Stone speak about the whiskey crates found at Sir Ernest Shackleton's base at Cape Royds. PBS Newshour (USA).
November 2009
Read the GlobalPost article about the century old whiskey found at Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition base at Cape Royds.
Read articles about the Scott Polar Research Institute's plans to publish extracts from Captain Scott's last diaries on a daily internet blog (also available via Twitter).
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