Polynesian explorers settled on a group of freezing sub-Antarctic islands in the 13th century after a “mind-blowing” voyage across the Southern Pacific Ocean, archaeologists have discovered.

New Zealand has so far avoided the strain of avian influenza causing mass mortalities of wild birds and mammals around the ...

World Heritage-listed Heard and McDonald islands are home to glaciers, wetlands, active volcanoes and an abundance of marine life. The subantarctic islands are a remote group located 4,000 ...

Two new studies into how plastic debris is reaching sub-Antarctic islands are published in the journal Environment International. New findings include analyses of some of the longest continuous ...

World Heritage-listed Heard and McDonald islands are home to glaciers, wetlands, active volcanoes and an abundance of marine life. The subantarctic islands are a remote group located 4,000 ...