Australia’s icebreaker RSV Nuyina has left Hobart on the first voyage of the Antarctic season, with plant, machinery and ...

The icebreaker, RSV Nuyina, is the main lifeline to Australia’s Antarctic and sub-Antarctic research stations and the central platform of our Antarctic and Southern Ocean scientific research. Nuyina ...

The Australian Antarctic Program’s (AAP) annual recruitment campaign opens today, presenting Australians with a life changing opportunity to live and work in Antarctica for up to 12 months. More than ...

The Head of the Australian Antarctic Division, as delegate for the Director of National Parks, is inviting comments on the Draft Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve Management Plan. The ...

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is temporarily withdrawing staff from Macquarie Island research station due to the psycho-social risk to expeditioners of a ...

The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI Territory) is an external territory of Australia. It was declared to be a Territory of the Commonwealth under the Heard Island and McDonald ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists are contributing to global understanding of the spread of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) with the release of findings from recent voyages to the remote ...

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) has awarded Master Planner, Environmental Impact Assessor, and Cost Planner contracts for the Macquarie Island Station Project (MISP). In 2024, the Federal ...

Australian scientists have drilled 400 metres into the Antarctic ice sheet, to retrieve ice that formed at the end of the last ice age, over 13,100 years ago, when woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed ...

Scientists are back on the ground at Heard Island after an enforced absence due to the weather. Making the most of brief weather windows on Tuesday and Wednesday, helicopter flights deployed 20 people ...

The Antarctic 'ice ceiling’ was smashed in 1976 when three women ventured to the southernmost continent as part of Australia’s Antarctic Program (formerly ‘Australian National Antarctic Research ...

The Australian Antarctic Program has arrived at the World Heritage listed Heard Island and McDonald Islands and has completed the first round of field activities on shore. The marine science program ...