Temperatures will fall as low as -6C tomorrow in parts of the South Island.

See what happens when boiling water is thrown into Antarctic air.

For six months of the year Antarctica doesn't see the sun.

Organisers want to make sure online list of all 257 victims' names is correct.

One skifield reported a dump of 75 centimetres.

Part of the world's largest ice shelf is melting 10 times faster than the overall average.

'The battle of political will, military power and global influence has been heating up.'

Adored for their waddle and striking black and white attire, these birds have smarts.

Conspiracy theorists that believe the Earth is flat want to reach Antarctica to prove it.

Lady Pippa agrees to request after watching Scouts' video appeal to use husband's name

Four people with links to New Zealand died in the 2014 Malaysia Airlines disasters.

"The only way I can describe it is like when a cat offers you a mouse," diver says.

For this small vessel, there is a volumous French swagger to Le Ponant's new ship.

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was abandoned in 1915 after it became stuck in ice

Explosives helping reveal how Antarctica's ice shelves might respond to a warming world.

Enormous cavity under ice cap has serious implications for the rate of rising sea levels.

What makes someone want to live in Antarctica? Jamie Morton explains.

Just how cold does it get at Antarctica's Scott Base? Jamie Morton explains.

Scientists are completing a project to help protect Antarctica's remarkable Dry Valleys.

To be on Antarctica's Ross Island is to be amid the ghosts of giants, writes Jamie Morton.

A glaciologist's epic trek across France-sized ice shelf will help unlock climate clues.

Kiwi scientists have found a clever way to look at how climate change will hit Antarctica.

Scientists have found a new way to peer beneath the largest single mass of ice on Earth.

Scientists are gaining world-first insights into the lives of Antarctica's whales.

What's life like at Scott Base? Somewhere between school camp and a space station.

Nothing about travelling to the coldest, windiest, driest place on Earth is normal.

Within Antarctica's most active volcano could be the key to understanding alien life.

Xuelong, or the Snow Dragon, is bound for Antarctica.