Bluff is located at the bottom of the South Island, New Zealand, in the province of Southland and is the 'Gateway to Stewart Island'. At 46° south, it is also an important departure point for Antarct...
Commonwealth Bay was the base of Mawson’s Australian Antarctic Expedition. Mawson’s Hut is located here, as described as a separate attraction. The region is known as the “Home of the Blizzard” – the...
Remote and wild, ice and high winds often prevent landing at the Dumont d’Urville Station. This French Research Station was been built to replace an earlier one which burnt down and a French airstrip...
Larnach Castle is New Zealand’s only castle.Built 1871 by William Larnach, merchant baron and politician, for his first wife Eliza, 200 workmen spent three years building the Castle. shell and master ...
The Emperor Penguin is the world’s largest penguin, standing over a metre tall. There are rookeries scattered around the more remote parts of Antarctica - mainly in the Ross and Weddell Seas. They b...
In November 1912, during the Australian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, Douglas Mawson lead two companions, Xavier Mertz and Belgrade Ninnis, together with a team of dogs, on an ill-fated mapping j...
