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The final job in saving Sir Edmund Hillary’s hut in Antarctica has been completed, with the help of a violin maker-turned-engineer determined to do his bit for the planet. Suzanne McFadden reports.
Dancing on Antarctica ice a historic first for Kiwi dancer
A frozen desert home to scientists, researchers, penguins and seals, Antarctica is not the kind of place you expect to find dancers performing outdoors. However, this is exactly what Corey Baker Dance will be doing this season at Scott Base...
Camping on the ice at Scott Base
Photographer Neil Silverwood takes part in Antarctic Field Training - an overnight course on how to live and work in Antarctica's extreme conditions.
Massive MPA comes into force off Antarctica
After five years of work, led by New Zealand and the United States, the world's second-largest marine protected area (MPA) has officially come into action in waters off Antarctica.
What lies beneath: Why NZ's slice of Antarctica is at the centre of an eco-mystery
Parts of Antarctica aren't behaving the way climate change models predict. It turns out that special things are going on in the Ross Sea, New Zealand's wedge of the icy continent.