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Mountaineering on Mt Cook, New Zealand

What does it take to trust your life in your own knot-tying ability, 100m high? Six days, one guide and a whole lot of courage.

Phar Lap’s skeleton has been remounted in a new more accurate way and put on display in New Zealand.

Christchurch mourns those lost one year ago today in the devastating earthquake.

Amphipods are normally 3-4cm long, but mysterious 28cm giants have been found north of New Zealand.

In the wake of the devastating Christchurch earthquakes, engineers are evaluating building structures.

A lost penguin is getting a lift home to Antarctica on a New Zealand research vessel.

In the remote landscape of New Zealand’s Fiordland, you can witness rugged, untouched nature.

A lost emperor penguin will get a lift home on a Russian icebreaker ship after he recovers from eating sand.

As one of the only working steam ships in the Southern Hemisphere, the TSS Earnslaw continues to win hearts.

A jetpack invented by a New Zealander is one step closer to commercialisation after lifitng 1.5km off the ground.