NZ's Antarctic research is a microcosm of how the country's scientific future should unfold, says Sir Peter Gluckman.

An inquiry has laid blame on both anti-whaling vessel Ady Gil and a Japanese whaling ship for their Southern Ocean crash earlier this year.

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.

A New Zealand Air Force Orion is winging its way to Antarctica to evacuate a critically ill American man.

Families who lost loved ones in NZ's worst air crash nearly 31 years ago have been asked to register for a ballot for 80 seats on a RNZAF commemorative flight to Antarctica.

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.

Jim Eagles is granted rare access to the lonely but lovely Sub Antarctic islands.

A diplomatic crisis is looming over an anti-whaling protestor who is reportedly being held in custody on a Japanese whaling vessel.

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.