The Government is campaigning to have two North Korean ships caught illegally fishing in a protected area off Antarctica blacklisted.

A small depot left by a 1930s United States expedition has been found by a New Zealand research team in Antarctica.

Expedition's controversial leader fears worst for crew who dropped pair near Scott Base.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says he welcomes today's announcement by the Japanese Government that its whaling fleet will stop whaling in the Southern Ocean and return home.

Anti-whaling activists say reports of Japan's annual Southern Ocean whale hunt being suspended are a bluff.

Relatives of the 257 people killed in the Mt Erebus air disaster returned last night from an emotional memorial service in Antarctica.

Anti-whaling activists in the Southern Ocean say they have located the Japanese whaling fleet and have already clashed with the whalers.

Surprising new data from Niwa about the ozone layer above the southernmost continent.

NZ's Antarctic research is a microcosm of how the country's scientific future should unfold, says Sir Peter Gluckman.

An inquiry has laid blame on both anti-whaling vessel Ady Gil and a Japanese whaling ship for their Southern Ocean crash earlier this year.

Sir Edmund Hillary's widow is selling the watch her late husband was given after climbing Mt Everest in 1953.