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“...you see this flight coming in and you suddenly realise the rest of the world is connected to you.” Read More

From teaching rangatahi to cook in the wilderness at Hillary Outdoors, to feeding hundreds of soldiers and serving researchers and crew at Scott Base, Barry Fairbanks has spent decades chasing jobs that are anything but ordinary. Read More

A team of international scientists have gathered in Dunedin to analyse evidence of when ice melted in the past, to predict future sea level rise. The samples were collected in one of the world's most remote sites in West Antarcti… Read More

The Governor-General has travelled to Antarctica's Scott Base to see the work happening on the ice. During the visit, Dame Cindy Kiro and husband Dr Richard Davies also visited Scott's Hut and Shackleton's Hut, and saw the Antarc… Read More

A group of New Zealand polar scientists have helped uncover clues to life's survival during the global ice age. Some of their research used samples collected by Robert Scott's Antarctica expeditions. Read More

Traces of DNA left behind in seafloor sediment by past marine communities at Kamb Ice Stream could reveal important information about the environmental conditions at the time they were alive – such as an ice shelf above, or open … Read More