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Cultural heritage in Antarctica simultaneously represents vulnerable historic remains and powerful political resources curated by nation states, for nation states. Political actors transform dilapidated huts, piles of rocks, and submerged ships into opportunities for strategic gain within the practice of Antarctic affairs – but what is the nature of this political discourse? This paper proposes the existence of a prevailing discourse on cultural heritage found in Antarctica comparable to that of Smith’s Authorised Heritage Discourse (the AHD). This discourse embodies how nation states active in the region – the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties – think and talk about heritage in Antarctica, and subsequently determines how this heritage is managed in practice. The first two sections investigate how discourse on Antarctic cultural heritage is situated, and how it has been realised. The third and final section scrutinises the characteristics of the Antarctic discourse in relation to the AHD. Consideration of the situation, realisation, and characterisation of a discourse on Antarctic cultural heritage, produces an in-depth account of the discourse overall. Key findings reveal that this discourse behaves very similarly to pre-existing models for global heritage.

Ice-locked huts, snow-buried cairns, and sunken ships: the prevailing discourse on heritage in antarctica