Currently the Antarctic Heritage Trust consists of two partners, the Antarctic Heritage Trust (New Zealand) which was formed in 1987 and the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, founded in 1993. The Trust is a coalition established to promote the following stated goals:
- Promote awareness of the human history of Antarctica and its relevance to the modern world: and to that end
- Identify, restore, preserve and record historic sites in Antarctica, the structures on them and the artifacts, which they contain
- Restore, preserve and protect, where appropriate, other elements, including archival records, of the historical heritage of human endeavour in Antarctica
- Provide means by which interested people and organisations may contribute to the achievement to the achievement of the coalitions objectives
- Be guided by appropriate heritage management standards
- Conform to the principles, purposes and spirit of the Antarctic Treaty, in particular, annex V, Area Protection and Management, of the protocol on Environmental Protection of Antarctica (The Madrid Protocol); and to
- Cooperate with coalition partners, and others with Antarctic interests, to achieve these objectives.
Famous quotes containing the words heritage and/or trust:
“It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)