Antarctica

This is now my eighth voyage to Antarctica on Tangaroa. While my medical skills have been called on many occasions, my daily consultation rate at sea is low. So, I fill my time with other activities including getting involved in the science if needed.

At midnight on Saturday, the crew on-board RV Tangaroa spotted the first iceberg of the voyage.

RV Tangaroa undertook a 45-day voyage to the Southern Ocean and Ross Sea in January-February, 2021.

We have officially entered Antarctic waters! Five days after leaving Wellington on the Ross Sea Life in a Changing Climate (ReLiCC) 2021 voyage.

Ice Pilot Evan Solly gives an update from the first week on-board NIWA's research vessel Tangaroa as they embark on a six-week voyage to Antarctica.

NIWA’s flagship research vessel Tangaroa leaves soon on a six-week voyage to Antarctica, making it one of the few full scientific expeditions to the continent since the global outbreak of COVID-19.

These are barrels you don't want to be opening, but if things go south, it’s nice to know they’re there.

Sea spiders look similar to land spiders, but they are in their own special group.

Chill-proofed divers plunge in the Ross sea, Antarctica.

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla.

This really cute little octopus is from cold Antarctic waters.

At the bottom of the Southern Ocean, near Cape Adare in East Antarctica, lies an undersea ridge which until this month was only known by its co-ordinates: -71.2132 latitude, 172.1649 longitude.