Australia's icebreaker is about to embark on one of its most important missions since coming into service more than three ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and New Zealand have signed a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA) marking the beginning of a landmark collaboration in Antarctic scientific research. The agreement ...

will board the ship during its two-day stay at Christchurch. It will be the first time for a researcher from Taiwan joins the Chinese mainland's Antarctic expedition. An S76 helicopter rented from ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found. The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, ...

A woman has been taken to hospital in a critical condition following a serious assault in a Christchurch park. Police and paramedics were called to the scene shortly after 9am on Wednesday. Detective ...

The Hercules has been a mainstay of Operation Antarctica, one of the New Zealand Defence Force’s (NZDF) largest summer deployments and most enduring missions, with Christchurch Airport serving ...

The project was launched at UNFCCC COP 26 in Baku, November 2020 and Dr Cait McCarry from Strathclyde has just returned from an expedition to Antarctica where she was sampling live krill. Krill are ...

By Tania Ganguli For about a week leading up to the A.F.C. championship game, Meredith Nolan had been living on a hulking research vessel parked in an Antarctic port. The ship, called the Noosfera ...

and an important part of Christchurch’s history. From Antarctic missions to disaster response, it has served our city and beyond with distinction. We’ll certainly miss seeing it fly over Christchurch.

The Hercules has been a mainstay of Operation Antarctica, one of the New Zealand Defence Force’s (NZDF) largest summer deployments and most enduring missions, with Christchurch Airport serving as the ...