Richard Tuhaka’s dive down into the Sub-Antarctic, in search of one of the world’s rarest birds, has given him a kete full of knowledge to pass on to the children of Tolaga Bay. The small town on the East Coast is 1600km from the Auckland Islands in the Southern...

Despite his ground-breaking change to the modern day Hippocratic Oath, Blake Leader Dr Sam Hazledine knows he has only made the first incision in an operation to improve the wellbeing of doctors across the globe, Suzanne McFadden reports. He had been a doctor, an...

MEDIA RELEASE 31 October 2017 A talented young Aucklander is packing his bags to head to the ice on 4 November after being awarded a coveted Blake Antarctic Ambassadorship. Chris Ansin (25) will spend five weeks supporting the Antarctic Heritage Trust as part of the...

Fragments of humpback whale skin no bigger than a thumbnail, gathered from the remote waters of Raoul Island, could help solve one of the great migration mysteries of the South Pacific. The tiny pieces of sloughed skin, shed by a humpback as it breaches, hold...

As James Blake heads off on his first round-the-world race odyssey, he knows he will find a new appreciation of what his father, Sir Peter Blake, achieved, and see the oceans he fell in love with. Blake admits he’s tried to stay away from sailing for most of his 30...