Explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew have just set off on the exact route across the Antarctic taken by Irishman Ernest Shackleton in 1916, right down to a replica boat and equipment, he tells Danielle McGrane

A New Zealand man has had the misfortune to find himself part of a renegade Norwegian crew heading for Antarctica.

SHIPS are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.

One of the crew from Japan’s controversial whale-hunting fleet was missing presumed dead today after apparently falling overboard in freezing Antarctic waters south of New Zealand.

New Zealand marine scientists are thawing the corpse of the largest squid to be caught, in an attempt to unlock some of the secrets of one of the ocean’s most mysterious beasts.

A government minister said today Japan’s whaling fleet was heading towards New Zealand-controlled waters in Antarctica, in breach of an agreement to remain in Australian waters during this year’s whale hunt.

A disabled British fishing trawler caught in pack ice for the past 15 days off Antarctica had its engine restarted today and may resume fishing, a crew member said.

A Japanese whaling ship has begun moving away from the Antarctic coast under its own power, an official said today – 10 days after fire crippled the vessel and left it stricken near the world’s biggest Adelie penguin rookery.

Fishermen off New Zealand have made an extremely rare catch: a Colossal Squid with eyes as big as dinner plates and razor-sharp hooks on its tentacles.