Anna Leask learns about the ancient past of a lesser-known part of the Pacific.

Awe-inspiring vistas and creature comforts take the sting out of a visit to Chilean Patagonia, writes Anna Leask.

It's a 5.30am wake-up call this morning and until we get up on deck there's no way to tell if we're going to be able to take the zodiacs and land on Horn Island, Cape Horn.

Rising at dawn is something I know more about in theory than in practice.

Jill Worrall finds some 19th century parallels with New Zealand history in South America's deep south.

This isolated area of South America is home to majestic glaciers, Magellanic penguins, elephant seals and cormorant... as well as some 50,000 beavers, a handful of which were introduced in the 19th century.

Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.

Japan's biggest quake since records began triggered a shocking 10m tsunami. See how the quake ranks in history.

A 10-metre-high tsunami ploughed into the Japanese coast on Friday, dashing ships into the shore, washing away houses and leaving devastation in its wake.

The 33 miners rescued from inside a Chilean mine last year had considered suicide and cannibalism, it has emerged.

Tasting wine that you can't afford is one of the pleasures of the job. It doesn't happen often but it's usually a joyous and memorable occasion when it does.

Cracks are beginning to emerge in the Chilean miners' planned unity over media arrangements.