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Postcards to Antarctica is an exhibition at Canterbury Museum featuring a series of short pieces of writing on postcards from personnel who lived and worked at Scott Base from days to many months. It is accompanied by video, soun… Read More

Step on board Antarctic aircraft before they head to the ice for the summer season. Meet the crews and check out a US Air Force C17, a RNZAF C130 Hercules, a historic Beaver and more. Read More

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the South… Read More

Sea ice levels in Antarctica dropped to a record low this year, but experts say there is not a clear link to climate change. Read More

On canvas, the polar expedition ship Terra Nova sits atop a stormy Southern Ocean, headed for Antarctica with the explorer Robert Falcon Scott on board. Read More

Recent weeks have seen it shuffle back and forth next to the Antarctic ice shelf from which it broke away. Read More