Antarctic cruises have never been so popular, with roughly 100,000 passengers a year. About 98% of them sail from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula, in the west. But just a few sail to the ...

These days, it’s rare to spot a southern elephant seal in New Zealand. These hefty mammals—the males can reach five metres ...

The subantarctic islands are a remote group located 4,000 kilometres southwest of Western Australia. Polar adventurer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis has seen it first-hand. "Think ...

Few people beyond shipwrecked sailors and a handful of intrepid scientists have set foot on the remote subantarctic island of Antipodes, 500km southeast of New Zealand. But after a necessarily ...

The distance to Antarctica itself is far greater from here, so these ships tend to head to a series of small archipelagoes known as the Subantarctic Islands. The westerly winds at these latitudes ...