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...