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.

Gaining the trust of locals is a big part of the job for part-time soldiers deployed in the Pacific.

The NZDF’S Antarctic contingent keeps things running on the icy continent.

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.

Conservationists hope to restore a permanent monument to the bravery of the men who gave up comfortable middle class lives to risk all in the blizzards and sub-zero temperatures.

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

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.

Murray McCully has urged experts meeting in Wellington to recommend ways of preventing a tourist boat disaster from ever happening in Antarctica.