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2022
- SBR Update | Green is the new base
- Colour of Antarctica's Scott Base rebuild to reflect history
- Keep it green: Scott Base to stay its signature colour
- Keeping Antarctica kākāriki: A green Scott Base wins New Zealanders' hearts
- The race for the base
- SBR Update | June 2022
- Antarctica New Zealand get first look inside Scott Base redesign
- First evidence of microplastics in Antarctic snow – new NZ research
- A map of the future
- ‘Hidden world’ of marine life discovered in Antarctic ‘river’ under ice
- Kiwi scientists make astonishing discovery hundreds of metres under Antarctic ice
- Honour for decades of Antarctic research
- Science Update - May 2022
- New Zealand's gateway to Antarctica
- Antarctica: coming to a postcode near you
- SBR Update | May 2022
- We need you to Colour Our Place, Scott Base!
- Science Update - April 2022
- Predicting sea level rise for Aotearoa New Zealand
- Elusive whales visit Scott Base
- Science Update - March 2022
- New building for science at Scott Base
- Science Update - February 2022
- Successful resupply mission to Antarctica proves capability of NZ Navy ship
- We're hiring! Come work at our place, Scott Base
- Exploring Antarctica’s hidden under-ice rivers and their role in future sea-level rise
- Science and machinery, with a side of sauce
- NZ Navy's new replenishment vessel sails on maiden voyage to Antarctica
- Science Update - January 2022
- SBR Update | January 2022
- The new face rebuilding Scott Base
- The hippest supercool science on Earth
- Microbe communities discovered under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf
- Science Update - December
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2021
- Secret Santa at Antarctica's Scott Base
- We're hiring! Wind Farm Upgrade roles
- SBR Update | December 2021
- The Bird that measures Antarctic ice
- New priorities approved for Antarctic and Southern Ocean research
- Science Update - November
- Marsden Success!
- 'Making a difference': Antarctic researchers honoured
- Drilling into Antarctica’s past to see our future
- SBR Update | November 2021
- It’s all about that Base
- UC research into decarbonising Antarctic science
- Searching for answers: Supercooled crystals and fast ice
- Science Update - October
- Antarctic science underpins urgency for climate action
- SBR Update | October 2021
- Green light to rebuild Scott Base
- Stuff | Government green lights renewal of historic Antarctic research base
- New ice drilling technology developed in Wellington on its way to Antarctica
- Antarctica NZ traverse team train for world's most extreme road trip
- Science Update - September 2021
- New lease of life for Antarctic sledges
- Boomerang from Scott Base
- Science Update August 2021
- SBR Update | August 2021
- 'Unexpectedly moving' - Kiwis welcome first sunrise in Antarctica in 6 months
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 update
- DHL | Delivered. goes sub-zero with Nick Murdoch for Antarctic Logistics
- Science Update July 2021
- Feedback sought on Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research Directions and Priorities
- RNZAF medically evacuates person from Antarctica in high-risk mission
- Revealed: Scott Base rebuild cost comes with warnings over project size and scale
- Microscopic marine algae, frozen ice tongues and superstar scholarship students
- Unlocking the secrets of the southern right whale tohorā
- Science Update June 2021
- Procurement for Geomagnetic Huts
- 2021 Winter Updates
- Cold Antarctica and what this might mean for NZ’s ski season
- Subscribe for redevelopment updates
- SBR Update | May 2021
- Science Update - May 2021
- Take a look inside our new base
- TVNZ | Revealed: Inside Antarctica's soon to be re-vamped Scott Base
- Stuff | Watch: Take a sneak peek of the new $300m Scott Base
- NZ Herald | Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visits Antarctica New Zealand after $344m funding boost for Scott Base makeover
- ChristchurchNZ | Christchurch A Winner As Government Confirms Scott Base Redevelopment
- The Guardian | Saving Scott Base: New Zealand’s ageing Antarctic station gets $300m lifeline
- Beehive | Budget 2021 safeguards the future of Scott Base
- NZ Herald | Budget 2021: $344m boost for Scott Base makeover
- Successful budget for Scott Base
- Learning to survive in Antarctica’s great outdoors
- Science Update - April
- 2021/22 season planning update
- Health and Safety and the journey across the world’s largest ice shelf
- Paul Woodgate, 40 years of “moving stuff”
- Science Update - March 2021
- 2019/20 Annual review of the New Zealand Antarctic Institute
- Diamond standards are a government agency’s best friend!
- Science Update - February 2021
- Stuff | Scott Base: She's creaky but done us proud
- A whale of a time at Scott Base
- Keystone Trust | Scott Base Redevelopment - Karissa Hyde
- Stuff | More plants could begin to 'invade the Antarctic Peninsula' as the frozen continent warms
- Stuff | Leaky buildings and ageing electrics: Report reveals poor state of Scott Base
- Scott Base Redevelopment: Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation
- Iceperts arrive in Christchurch
- Ride in Scott Base style
- What the future could hold for Antarctica’s unique ecosystems
- Science Update - January 2021
- Scott Base Redevelopment: Weather Station relocation
- Science Update - December 2020
- Bird's Icy View
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2020
- Lorde’s Voyage to the End of the World
- Lorde on Going South
- Antarctic scientists support climate emergency
- 2021 Antarctic Science Conference
- Science Update - November 2020
- November Update
- Scott Base staff continue Antarctic scientific project with coaching from New Zealand-based experts
- Contaminants expected in very old Antarctic penguin poo
- Icy science, but without the scientists on ice
- Antarctic research receives huge support in this year’s Marsden funding round
- Science Update - October 2020
- Can kids ace our base?
- Welcome to our Antarctic whanau Dr Dan
- Science Update - September 2020
- September Update
- Supercomputers and super cool science
- From the coldest place to the toughest race
- Stuff | Antarctica NZ planning for sea level rise – and fall – at Scott Base
- Days of Ice - Celebrate with us!
- Science Update - August 2020
- Antarctica through fresh eyes - a tauira film competition
- Supporting our rising stars
- New Board members for Antarctica New Zealand
- Ice-olation for Antarctica New Zealand
- A Green Building on the White Continent
- Science Update - July 2020
- The Warming South Pole
- Scott Base Winter Updates
- Kāhui Māori to protect and guide Antarctic as well as climate adaptation research
- This is Us - Aimee and Joey - Antarctica
- June Update
- Science Update- June 2020
- Congratulations to the Melting Ice and Rising Seas team
- Science on Ice
- NZ company to rebuild our home in Antarctica
- COVID-19 Impacts Antarctic Field Season
- Science Update- May 2020
- May Update
- Polar Journal | Facelifting for New Zealand’s Antarctic station
- Webinar: Redeveloping Scott Base for the future
- Highlights from the 2019/20 field season- SOOS
- New additions to the Redevelopment project team
- Emotive new documentary episode highlights Antarctica’s global role in sea level rise
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response update
- Science Update: April 2020
- April Update
- The world’s southernmost ANZAC service
- Business as unusual – designing through COVID-19
- Ex-Dinsney animator brings Antarctic story to life
- "Positive mindset, optimisim and a bottomless pit of patience and tolerance"
- Jigsaws and curiosity: An insight into coping in coronavirus lockdown from the most isolated place on earth
- Science Update- March 2020
- Antarctica New Zealand Update
- Update from the ice
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response
- Remembering an Antarctic legend
- Science Update- Febraury 2020
- Kiwi construction companies vying for Earth's iciest rebuild in Antarctica
- Is this the world’s coldest job interview?
- Drilling for icy answers
- Science Update- January 2020
- Satellite fault at Scott Base
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2019
- Science Update- December 2019
- Our new rock-star Professor
- Tsunami report for Scott Base
- NZ scientists to probe climate threat frozen underground- Jamie Morton NZ Herald
- Antarctica to London
- Science Update- November 2019
- Scott Base remembers
- Ten million dollar plan
- Marsden success for Antarctic science projects
- Science Update- October 2019
- Associate Professor Nick Golledge awarded 2019 Hill Tinsley Medal
- Contestable funding recipients announced
- Science Update- September 2019
- Ngāi Tahu Tourism and Antarctica New Zealand launch partnership
- Could you build our base in Antarctica?
- Welcome Tim Naish
- Science Update- August 2019
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) PhD Scholarship
- Marvellous modelling
- 60 years of the Antarctic Treaty
- Negative SAM and this week’s wintry weather
- Science Update- July 2019
- A childhood dream translated in conservation research
- Fire and ice
- From Greenland to Antarctica via Dunedin
- Antarctica, not all ice
- Significant funding boost for Kiwi Antarctic research programmes
- Antarctica's Scott Base to get $250 million upgrade
- Icebergs on ice
- Dramatic loss in Antarctic sea ice concerns NASA
- Science Update- June 2019
- First look at our coolest redevelopment
- The long, dark and very cold night: Antarctica in photographs
- Spotlight on Antarctic science
- Climate secrets buried deep beneath the Southern Ocean
- Millions of dollars for Antarctic research
- Applications open for four three-year research fellowships
- Science Update- April 2019
- New Chief Executive for Antarctica New Zealand
- Sun sets on another science season
- Youthfull toothfish abound
- Science Update- March 2019
- Māori Carvers head to Antarctica copy
- Antarctica Unfrozen, a podcast series
- Hip hop penguins and awe inspiring aurora
- Diving to new depths for Antarctic science
- Congratulations Professor James Renwick
- Science Update- February 2019
- Killer footage confirms toothfish on the menu
- In memory of Professor David Walton
- Bombs away in Terra Nova Bay
- How much coffee would you drink in a year?
- Science Update- January 2019
- Sir Ed's temperate legacy
- Antarctic stars in their eyes
- Jamie Morton's Antarctic Diary: Why Kiwis come to Scott Base
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2018
- Science Update- December 2018
- Science Update- November 2018
- Unfrozen funds for Antarctica
- NZ Schools visit Antarctica
- New Antarctic frontiers
- Science Update- October 2018
- From Antarctic ice to Jupiter's moon
- Collaborating under the ice
- Icy delay to Antarctica
- Canterbury student heads to Antarctica
- Science Update- September 2018
- The warmest farewell to the coldest travellers
- Into the East
- Science Update- August 2018
- Science Update- July 2018
- Forests of the Southern Ocean
- Wherever the wind - and climate drivers - carry her!
- Seismic Excitement
- Science Update- June 2018
- International Antarctic role for Otago Professor
- Science Update- May 2018
- Science Update- April 2018
- Antarctica: The First Dance
- Rare footage of whales captured in Antarctica
- Staying South
- X-raying Antarctica
- New Zealands Coolest Redevelopment
- Buffeted bt wind, history and amazing people
- Buffeted by wind, history and amazing people
- Antarctic scientists help Kiwi weather models by releasing hi-tech helium balloons linked to the internet
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2017
- Dancing on Antarctica ice a historic first for Kiwi dancer
- Antarctica's Ross Sea massive marine protected area comes into force
- Massive MPA comes into force off Antarctica
- What lies beneath: Why NZ's slice of Antarctica is at the centre of an eco-mystery
- Camping on the ice at Scott Base
- Diving Scientists Report 'Big Changes' Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf
- 'Unusual' seal pup spot near Scott Base
- 'Daunting' Antarctic sea ice plummet could be tipping point
- Pioneering Antarctic women honoured at Scott Base
- Antarctic tourism booming, but at a cost
- What it's like to camp in Antarctica
- Antarctic orca check out their world
- Fire and ice: Mapping the magma flow to Antarctica's most active volcano
- Otago zoologist honoured by national scientific peers through 2017 Marsden Medal
- Emperor penguins in Antarctica curious about making a friend
- Antarctica's contribution to sea level rise
- Penguins die in 'catastrophic' Antarctic breeding season
- Scientists to explore 120,000yo ecosystem uncovered after trillion-ton iceberg break
- Ice Ice Baby: Making science and family work!
- Place Personified
- Antarctic Air Day
- Filming under water life in Antarctica in 360 Virtual Reality
- Antarctic sea ice levels hit record low, but experts are not sure why
- Nelson artist's exhibition documents Antarctic journeys of Scott and Shackleton
- Big Antarctic iceberg edges out to sea
- Voting from Overseas: A Dummies Guide for New Zealanders
- Ten Christchurch art exhibitions to see this September
- Antarctic labs overhaul just the beginning for supercool Scott Base
- Postcards to Antarctica
- Life membership ‘quite a shock’
- The winners and losers of Antarctica's great thaw
- Warming Antarctica becoming more hospitable to animals which could lead to some epic battles
- 'We're on a really steep learning curve'
- Scientists in Antartica painting a bleak picture for low lying New Zealand coastal communities
- Mystery of Antarctic sea ice investigated by science and art
- Alarm over Antarctic data
- Record decline in Antarctic sea ice
- Century-old polar samples yield new insights
- Antarctic storm: 'Like living in a wind tunnel'
- Kiwi researchers discover 'almost perfectly preserved' 118-year-old painting in Antarctica
- Science on ice
- Is the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet inevitable?
- The G&T effect: Antarctica is melting differently than the Arctic
- To The Ice
- Antarctic Scott Base revamp on cards with $4m allocated to Kiwi base in budget
- New funding for Antarctica presence
- National Portrait: Peter Beggs, the NZ boss of white, odourless Antarctica
- The Antarctic frontier: developing research in an extreme environment
- Jamie Curry's Antarctic adventure a YouTube hit
- Iceberg replica to appear on Auckland War Memorial Museum
- Prime Minister's Science Prizes Announced
- 3.6 Million More Penguins Live in Antarctica Than Thought
- Four Kiwis reach peak of Antarctica's Mt Scott
- Whales, drones and ice: Six bold new Kiwi studies
- New Zealand on Ice
- The impact of our warming world on Earth’s ice
- Kapiti's Randal Heke proud of Scott Base construction and restoration 60 years on
- Conservation efforts underway on Scott statue
- Winners or losers? Antarctic starfish and climate change
- Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf
- When entertainment meets science: Hosting a TEDx talk on ice.
- TEDxScottBase
- 'We couldn't do it without the Kiwis' - NZDF drive unique fleet of trucks to fetch annual supplies in Antarctica
- A TEDx event in Antarctica marks Scott Base’s 60th anniversary
- 'Antarctica is calling out for us to help her' - Hollywood journalist Ashlan Cousteau
- Antarctic visitor numbers spark strong views at Scott Base anniversary event
- A journey to Antarctica: Life on the frozen planet
- New Zealand is set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Scott Base in style, with the entire event broadcast online around the world.
- Antarctica NZ to mark 60th anniversary by hosting first ever worldwide broadcast from Scott Base
- Huge iceberg poised to break off Antarctica
- Student helps preserve Hillary's Antarctic legacy
- Jane Ussher on photographing Antarctica
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2016
- East Antarctica is Melting From Above and Below
- Digital Mapping of Antarctica
- Trinity Roots' Warren Maxwell ventures to Antarctica for fresh sounds, inspriation
- Antarctic Starfish
- Life on the ice: A glimpse of Antarctica
- A day in the life of an Antarctic researcher
- TEDxScottBase: More than science planned!
- Wigmore, astronaut in Antarctic Ted Talk
- Millions to see Otago's cool research
- Stunning images show Antarctica in all its breathtaking glory as a crew of scientists visit the Peninsula to chase whales and battle the freezing conditions
- Kiwi scientists shine in Continent 7: Antarctica
- Nat Geo doco follows Kiwi science on ice
- Major diplomatic coup for NZ as world's largest marine reserve gets the tick
- Tributes flow for NZDF, Antarctica stalwart
- Kiwi filmmaker touches down home after year in Antarctica
- Artist & scientist join forces to make climate change cool in the classroom
- Kiwi star Jamie Curry off to Antarctica
- Spending time with Antarctic penguins
- Antarctica pumps $178 million into NZ economy
- Beautiful drone footage of right whales off coast of NZ
- Antarctica ice shelf at risk from huge, spreading crack
- High Tech Drones Capture Whale Data
- Enviro-Mark Solutions is inspiring action for a better environment.
- Ice Age characters take advantage of new winter flights to Antarctica
- After warming fast, part of Antarctica gets a chill - study
- New Zealand to buy $493m naval tanker
- New research explains why Antarctic sea ice has grown
- Oldest Antarctic relics being conserved by Canterbury Museum
- Century-old artefacts retrieved from forgotten Antarctica site
- Antarctica NZ photo archive goes online
- Glacier melt to drown historic Antarctica New Zealand site
- Meet New Zealand’s extreme scientists
- Notorious Ocean Current Is Far Stronger Than Previously Thought
- Big Read: A to Z guide to the Antarctic