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Traverse vehicles with Mt Erebus backfdrop 8 Nov 2025 Anthony Powell Antarctica New Zealand
12 December 2025

SWAIS2C: Mission for ancient climate clues beneath 500m of Antarctic ice

An international team has set up a remote camp on the ice 700 km from Scott Base to attempt to drill for mud and rocks holding critical insights about the fate of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in our warming world. The vast West … Read More

Science technician Harry Offer following the installation of the back end of the AERI spectrometer photo ESNZ website 10 Dec 2025
10 December 2025

Earth Sciences NZ I NZ and US studying huge unknown in Antarctic climate science

Scientists are measuring a huge unknown in climate science: how much heat Antarctica emits into space. ESNZ and the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (USA) are looking at far infrared radiation. Read More

MEDEVAC Aug 2025 Credit Al Denovan Antarctica New Zealand
6 August 2025

NZDF l Mid-winter medical evacuation

Crew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130J Hercules have carried out a challenging mid-winter medical evacuation from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Read More

Mighty Indeed - Jacqui Stuart
17 July 2025

Mighty Indeed: Sea ice scientists shine in award-winning film

Antarctic science has hit the big screen in this year’s national Doc Edge Festival, with the story of three women studying sea ice near Scott Base taking home two awards. Mighty Indeed premiered at HOYTS EntX in Antarctic Gatewa… Read More

2025 Scholarship recipients
16 July 2025

Antarctica scholarships 2025: Ocean detectives

Antarctica’s Southern Ocean is full of unanswered questions — and this year’s Antarctica New Zealand scholarship recipients are on a mission to help solve them. Each of the 2025 Antarctica New Zealand scholarships is backing a y… Read More

Swiss Alphorn Group
8 July 2025

New Zealand and Switzerland team up for Antarctic science

Antarctica New Zealand and the Swiss Polar Institute have officialised their cooperation in polar science. The two programmes signed a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA) in Auckland on Monday 8 July, which will facilitate the develo… Read More

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