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22 April 2018

Antarctica: The First Dance

Featuring Madeleine Graham, star of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and music from London Grammar, Corey’s film highlights the fragility of Antarctica through creative dance. Read More

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20 March 2018

Rare footage of whales captured in Antarctica

“I’m such an excited scientist right now!” Dr Regina Eisert, marine mammal expert at the University of Canterbury, still can’t believe the underwater footage her team captured on a recent Antarctic expedition to study killer whal… Read More

Staying South
20 March 2018

Staying South

New Zealand has a near-century old toehold in Antarctica. It will cost $150m to keep it. In the 1980s, when the ozone hole was the most important research effort underway in Antarctica, a new lab was tacked on to the west end of … Read More

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12 March 2018

X-raying Antarctica

Antarctica New Zealand is looking to space for help back on Earth! The Kiwi can-do attitude has teamed up with German space technology to successfully cross the world’s largest ice shelf. This season, Antarctica New Zealand mount… Read More

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27 February 2018

New Zealands Coolest Redevelopment

New Zealand’s coolest redevelopment Scott Base is about to go under the microscope as a group of specialist designers takes up the call for the redevelopment of New Zealand’s home in Antarctica. The facility is reaching the end o… Read More

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16 January 2018

Buffeted bt wind, history and amazing people

Chris Ansin recalls with exhilaration the moments he lay holding down the roof of an historic Antarctic hut – pummelled by bitterly cold gale-force winds. Read More

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