Join travel writer Peter John Watson in conversation with author and Antarctica expert Katherine MacInnes as they discuss Peter’s debut book Counting Penguins.

In December 2025, travel writer Peter John Watson arrived at Port Lockroy for three months as a wildlife monitor, counting gentoo penguins, welcoming visitors and helping run the world’s southernmost post office.

We’re delighted to warmly invite our donors and supporters to join us at the book launch of Midnight Sun by the award-winning polar, wildlife and adventure travel photographers Ian Dawson and Sue Flood OBE.

Introduced by UKAHT’s Camilla Nichol, host Sir Michael Palin will join Ian and Sue onstage in London to explore their breathtaking images of the landscapes, ice, people and wildlife of the Arctic and Antarctic, followed by audience questions.

Step into the frozen South with two immersive VR experiences from the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust and New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust.
Travel back to 1965 with UKAHT’s A Frozen Night and experience life and fieldwork at historic Base E on Stonington Island, or journey inside Discovery Hut and explore the stories of Antarctica’s early explorers.

Journey to 1965 Antarctica with ‘A Frozen Night’, our 30-minute virtual reality experience. Immerse yourself in a reconstruction of Base E on Stonington Island, a pivotal dog sledging outpost established in 1946. You’ll experience the unique challenges and beauty of undertaking Antarctic fieldwork, embarking on a dog sledge expedition into the Antarctic Peninsula. Bringing a true story from the archives to life, the experience is narrated by those who once inhabited the UK’s southernmost base.

Our acclaimed podcast, A Voyage to Antarctica, has returned. Journalist and broadcaster Alok Jha talks to leading explorers, scientists, conservationists and artists about Antarctica’s fascinating past, present and future, to discover why the icy continent matters to us all.

Our acclaimed podcast, A Voyage to Antarctica, has returned. Journalist and broadcaster Alok Jha talks to leading explorers, scientists, conservationists and artists about Antarctica’s fascinating past, present and future, to discover why the icy continent matters to us all.

Our acclaimed podcast, A Voyage to Antarctica, has returned. Journalist and broadcaster Alok Jha talks to leading explorers, scientists, conservationists and artists about Antarctica’s fascinating past, present and future, to discover why the icy continent matters to us all.

Our acclaimed podcast, A Voyage to Antarctica, has returned. Journalist and broadcaster Alok Jha talks to leading explorers, scientists, conservationists and artists about Antarctica’s fascinating past, present and future, to discover why the icy continent matters to us all.

Join us for specialist panel discussion exploring the threats posed to heritage sites by the changing climate. As the impacts of climate change accelerate around the world, the heritage sector faces increasing challenges in protecting its most vulnerable sites.

Join acclaimed polar photographers Ian Dawson and Sue Flood for an inspiring online workshop supporting the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. With careers spanning the BBC’s Blue Planet and Planet Earth, photojournalism and polar expeditions, Ian and Sue bring world-class technical skill and creative insight from some of the most extreme environments on Earth.

Join us for the BFI’s stunning 2011 restoration of Ponting’s iconic Antarctic documentary, complete with a haunting contemporary score by Simon Fisher Turne. In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Captain Robert F Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, New Zealand on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.