A New Zealand Air Force Orion is winging its way to Antarctica to evacuate a critically ill American man.

Families who lost loved ones in NZ's worst air crash nearly 31 years ago have been asked to register for a ballot for 80 seats on a RNZAF commemorative flight to Antarctica.

For once, a play's tagline is accurate: this drama-on-ice is pitched as "a woman, a man and a penguin" - and they're not kidding.

Antarctica is more than spectacular - it's spellbinding, finds Scott Pinnegar.

Jim Eagles is granted rare access to the lonely but lovely Sub Antarctic islands.

A diplomatic crisis is looming over an anti-whaling protestor who is reportedly being held in custody on a Japanese whaling vessel.

Japanese whalers have confirmed a New Zealand protester who boarded one of their ships has received medical attention for a knife-wound.

Jim Eagles braves rough seas, icebergs and whipping rain to get to know some of the amusing inhabitants of the Sub-Antarctic islands.

Flying over the white continent is a humbling treat, writes Lloyd Jones.

A new wind farm in Antarctica is expected to cut diesel use by nearly 500,000 litres a year at Scott Base and McMurdo Station.

John Key says progress has been made on a deal which would end Japanese whaling in Antarctica.

The NZ Government has called for restraint after an anti-whaling protest vessel and Japanese harpoon ship collided in Antarctica yesterday.

The crew of a NZ trimaran harassing Japanese whalers have been rescued after a collision between their boat and a Japanese ship.

The crew of a NZ trimaran harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean had to be rescued after their boat was allegedly rammed and sunk by a Japanese ship, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says.

One of the world's earliest aeroplanes, entombed in ice for decades, has been discovered in Antarctica.

Twizel's Kylie Wakelin has become the first New Zealand woman to make it to the South Pole by trekking.