Sir Edmund Hillary's widow is selling the watch her late husband was given after climbing Mt Everest in 1953.

Eighty people who lost family members in the 1979 Erebus tragedy will travel to Antarctica on a remembrance flight this summer after their names were drawn in a ballot.

For once, a play's tagline is accurate: this drama-on-ice is pitched as "a woman, a man and a penguin" - and they're not kidding.

Antarctica is more than spectacular - it's spellbinding, finds Scott Pinnegar.

Gaining the trust of locals is a big part of the job for part-time soldiers deployed in the Pacific.

The NZDF’S Antarctic contingent keeps things running on the icy continent.

Japanese whalers have confirmed a New Zealand protester who boarded one of their ships has received medical attention for a knife-wound.

Jim Eagles braves rough seas, icebergs and whipping rain to get to know some of the amusing inhabitants of the Sub-Antarctic islands.

Conservationists hope to restore a permanent monument to the bravery of the men who gave up comfortable middle class lives to risk all in the blizzards and sub-zero temperatures.

Flying over the white continent is a humbling treat, writes Lloyd Jones.

A new wind farm in Antarctica is expected to cut diesel use by nearly 500,000 litres a year at Scott Base and McMurdo Station.

John Key says progress has been made on a deal which would end Japanese whaling in Antarctica.