UK Antarctic Heritage Trust

25/08/2026

Following its stop at the Australian Antarctic Festival in Hobart, our immersive Antarctic VR tour is heading across New Zealand 🇳🇿

Step inside historic Antarctic bases, meet the explorers who lived and worked there and experience the frozen continent without leaving New Zealand.

📍 Christchurch – International Antarctic Centre
26–27 August | Walk-ins, no booking required

📍 Auckland – New Zealand Maritime Museum
29–30 August | Free, booking required: https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/events/take-a-virtual-visit-to-antarctica

📍 Wellington – Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Central Library
1–2 September | Walk-ins, no booking required

📍 Dunedin – Tūhura Otago Museum
9–10 September | Free, booking required: https://tuhura.nz/whats-on/virtual-visit-to-antarctica-vr-experience

Step into Antarctica's past with two immersive VR experiences from the New Zealand and UK Antarctic Heritage Trusts.

24/08/2026

Our much-loved Antarctic postal service is back! 📮🇦🇶

For £20, you can write a message on a limited-edition postcard, which our Port Lockroy team will stamp and send from the Penguin Post Office, with delivery expected in March 2027.

Our beloved Penguin Post Office at Port Lockroy, on a football pitch-sized island on the Antarctic Peninsula, was opened in 1944. It began with a secret mission to establish the first permanent British base on the continent. This outpost was known as Base A, and the basic wooden hut as Bransfield Ho...

23/08/2026

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📸 Peter Watson/UKAHT

22/08/2026

A gift in your Will can help protect Antarctica’s extraordinary heritage for generations to come. 💙

Our free guide to writing or updating your Will is a simple place to start.

With a gift in your Will to UKAHT, you can play a part in Antarctica’s story and protect these special sites now and long into the future

21/08/2026

What do an underwater post office, a cave, Everest and a tiny Antarctic island have in common? 📮🌍

We travel from the seabed to the frozen South in search of some of the world’s most unusual post offices, including, of course, our very own Penguin Post Office at Port Lockroy. 🐧

Discover some of the world’s most unusual post offices, from a submerged outpost in the Pacific to mail delivered by mule in the Grand Canyon

20/08/2026

🐧 Take a virtual trip to Antarctica at the 2026 Australian Antarctic Festival!

Experience historic Antarctic bases through immersive VR, including UKAHT’s, A Frozen Night

Presented by Mawson’s Huts Foundation with UKAHT & NZAHT.

📍 Princes Wharf 1, Hobart
📅 22–23 August
🎟️ Free – booking essential
👤 Ages 11+

Take a virtual visit to Antarctica and explore historic expedition bases through immersive VR experiences from the UK and New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trusts.

19/08/2026

From his Irish childhood and first experiences in Antarctica to the extraordinary survival story of the Endurance, these are the most interesting facts about Ernest Shackleton.

From his first Antarctic experience to the extraordinary story of the Endurance, these are the most interesting facts about Ernest Shackleton

17/08/2026

Polar photographers Sue Flood and Ian Dawson discuss their new collaborative book Midnight Sun, the extraordinary light and wildlife of the polar regions, and why photography can play a powerful role in inspiring people to protect these rapidly changing places.

Polar photographers Sue Flood and Ian Dawson discuss their new collaborative book on the extraordinary light and wildlife of the extremes

15/08/2026

A postcard travels from Antarctica’s Penguin Post Office to Ochopee, Florida – the tiny Everglades hut known as the world’s smallest post office.

A postcard travels from the Penguin Post Office to Ochopee, Florida – the tiny Everglades hut known as the world’s smallest post office