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The Ady Gil after its collision with Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru 2 (Reuters / Sea Shepherd file)

Bethune and Sea Shepherd settle video

The two parties have settled a long-running legal battle which involves a financial settlement in exchange for assistance in an extradition case.

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An Anzac Day service was held around 10am in Antarctica (Photo: Jamie Ward / Antarctica NZ)

Anzac Day dawnless service in Antarctica video

The Anzac spirit was felt in Antarctica yesterday as NZ's team at Scott Base turned out for a dawn service, despite not having a dawn.

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The Chinese ship Kai Xin on fire in the Antarctic (AAP/Chilean Air Force)

Burned Chinese ship sinks in Antarctic

A Chinese factory fishing ship that burned last week off Antarctica has sunk without anyone on board, Chile's navy says.

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Chinese factory ship "Kai Xin" with a fire on board (AAP/Chilean Air Force)

Chinese ship on fire in Antarctica

A Chilean military tugboat is heading to Antarctica to prevent an environmental disaster by retrieving a burning Chinese fishing ship.

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Sanford says safety and environmental issues need to be added to a proposal for a marine reserve in the Ross Sea

Sanford backs Ross Sea marine reserve

New Zealand fishing company Sanford says safety and environmental issues need to be added to a proposal for a marine reserve in the Ross Sea.

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The coolest conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula occurred around 600 years ago  (file)

Antarctic ice melt 'quickening'

Summer ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic Peninsula than at any time in the past 1000 years, new research shows.

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Around 30,000 tourists travelled to Antarctica last summer

Call for fewer tourists to Antarctica video

Environmentalists are calling for tougher regulations in Antarctica, as tourism numbers continue to rise.

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Cape Bird is home to 160,000 Adélie penguins

Climate change winners and losers video

Scientists in Antarctica say climate change is having two very different effects on the region's Adélie penguins.

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Ross Sea, Antarctica (File)

US backs NZ push for Antarctic reserve

The United States has renewed its support to create marine sanctuaries in Antarctica's Ross Sea

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A general view of drilling apparatus at the Vostok research camp in Antarctica (Reuters/file)

Mysterious life form under Antarctica

Russian scientists say the unidentified bacterium has no relation to any of the existing bacterial types.

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Supplied image of an iceberg (whitest ice) as it moves into view as seen from a webcam on top of a hill behind McMurdo Station, Antarctica (AAP)

3km iceberg breaks off Antarctic glacier

A massive iceberg has broken off the Erebus Glacier Tongue in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound - a rare but natural event.

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The hutt is lifted off the Sumner site with a crane

Scott expedition hut finds new home

A cabin once built for explorer Captain Scott has been salvaged from one of Christchurch’s earthquake damaged properties.

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Explorer Ranulph Fiennes (Reuters/file)

Sir Ranulph pulls out of Antarctic trek

British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has pulled out of his 3000km midwinter trek across Antarctica because he has developed frostbite.

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A supplied photo made available Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 of the Shackleton Epic crew on Elephant Island prior to departure (AAP)

Explorers complete Shackleton's voyage

A team of explorers have recreated Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic voyage across the perilous Southern Ocean.

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The Mertz Glacier's in a region of Antarctica known as one of the three lungs of the ocean

Melting glaciers may affect ocean oxygen levels video

The Tangaroa, which famously released Wellington's resident penguin, Happy Feet, is returning to Antarctica.

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Antarctic life thriving under the ice

From the air, Antarctic sea ice is cold, windswept and barren.

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The crash site is at an altitude of almost 4000 metres

Flight recorder could hold crash clues video

Search and Rescue teams have managed to recover the cockpit voice recorder from the Twin Otter plane which crashed in Antarctica.

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Experienced pilot Bob Heath has been identified as one of three killed

Body recovery efforts abandoned

In Antarctica, efforts to recover the bodies of three Canadian flyers from a crashed aircraft in have been abandoned.

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Experienced pilot Bob Heath, of Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air, has been identified as one of three killed

NZ and US to attempt body recovery

NZ and US teams will try and recover the bodies of three Canadians killed when their aircraft crashed into a steep mountain in Antarctica.

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The Ken Borek Air Limited Twin Otter aeroplane, with three crew on board, was reported missing on Wednesday evening

Antarctica crash 'not survivable'

Search and rescue personnel say this week’s plane crash in Antarctica would not have been survivable.

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