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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

Scott Base Redevelopment Stage 1 of the masterplan complete
16 June 2025

New construction partner announced for Scott Base Redevelopment

Antarctica New Zealand is pleased to announce LT McGuinness has been selected as the Early Contractor Engagement (ECE) contractor to assist with the design and delivery of the Scott Base Redevelopment. With over 70 years of cons… Read More

Old Vanda Station Site
29 May 2025

NIWA I Antarctic clean-up challenges

The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the challenges of contaminated sites, according to a study in the journal Polar Record, recently published by Camb… Read More

UAE Memorandum of Arrangement
15 May 2025

New Zealand signs Memorandum of Arrangement with United Arab Emirates

Antarctica New Zealand and Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA), marking the start of a future collaboration in Antarctic research between the two countries. The MoA was for… Read More

Dr Shane Reti
1 May 2025

Antarctic climate mission extended to 14 years

As New Zealand experienced severe southerly gales and flooding this morning, new funding was announced to continue climate change science in Antarctica. Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, Dr Shane Reti, was in Chri… Read More

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