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A Specialist on antarctic governance says he is annoyed by people's "passivity" over the continent, fearing the system is at risk of being hollowed out.

As summer flights head back to Antarctica, we look at the geopolitics of the land that no one owns, but everyone wants a piece of. 

The spectacle of the moon blocking out the sun reached its greatest extent at around 07:33 GMT for spectators near the edge of Antarcticas Ronne Ice Shelf, which went dark for two minutes.

A late offer of $1.5m investment into Timaru's port infrastructure appears to have sealed the town's bid to build the new $344m Scott Base.

Our About the South columnist on a canine colony off Rakiura/Stewart Island, an intrepid Inspector of Telegraphs and a proposal of unbearable stupidity.

An international team of researchers including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York will drill into the ocean floor to discover the We

“Apart from being a bit starving and severely dehydrated, he was actually not too bad, so we gave him some fluids and some fish smoothie,” said Thomas Stracke of New Zealand’s Christchurch Penguin Rehabilitation.

The research project, dubbed SWAIS 2C, will investigate the sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to global warming of 2 degrees Centigrade.

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Antarctic Gateway city Christchurch has seen the $344m project go south to Timaru, taking 700 new jobs with it.