The White Continent is the ultimate in cruise exploration, but these extraordinary ships push the boundaries even further by ...

Visitors to New Zealand can experience a simulated trip to frigid Antarctica just outside the international airport at Christchurch, a busy tourist hub and one of five gateways to the southernmost ...

Some curious penguins turned up as “unexpected guests” while the Royal New Zealand Air Force was carrying out training in ...

Leading Musician Paine, who was born in Adelaide but now lives in Auckland’s Bayswater, is among the 21 NZDF personnel who ...

New Zealand signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute on Saturday to foster cooperation in Antarctica, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said. Peters met with his ...

The RNZAF evacuated three U.S. researchers from Antarctica, including one needing urgent care. The midwinter mission involved flying in 24-hour darkness and extreme cold. The 19.5-hour operation was ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctica Expedition - between 1914 and 1917 - has been described as one of the greatest ...

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) flight crew has successfully completed a 19‑hour mission to evacuate three staff members from the US McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The crew battled extreme cold, ...

WELLINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Several crew members of a South Korean fishing vessel on fire in Antarctica are missing and others are injured, New Zealand rescue authorities said on Wednesday. The ...

More than five miles (eight kilometres) of glacial ice in Antarctica vanished in only two months, retreating 10 times faster ...

More than five miles (eight kilometres) of glacial ice in Antarctica vanished in only two months, retreating 10 times faster ...