Japan ends its annual Antarctic whaling season early, saying “harassment” by activists’ ships had made it too dangerous to continue.

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Japan to bring whaling boats home

Thar she doesn’t blow, at least for now. Japan has announced that it will suspend an annual Antarctic whale hunt after activists chased and blocked a whaling fleet’s mother ship. Environmentalists and several nations have long objected to Japanese…

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Japan Suspends Whale Hunt

With about 50m left to drill, time is running out for scientists drilling into a lake hidden deep below the Antarctic ice.

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Race to drill hidden polar lake

Scottish distillers are analysing a batch of whisky taken to the Antarctic by Ernest Shackleton, where it stayed frozen for more than 100 years.

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Whisky to reveal 100-year-old secrets

For more than a hundred years bottles of Scotch whisky have been buried in ice in the Antarctic after they were left behind by explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on his 1907 expedition.

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Shackleton’s frozen Antartic whisky

A South Korean deep sea trawler sinks in the Antarctic area of the Southern Ocean, killing four crew members, officials say.

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S Korea vessel sinks in Antarctic

American cruise ship heads for port after an engine fails in heavy Antarctic seas.

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Stricken cruise ship limps to port

Dogs who were indispensable in early Antarctic discovery will be honored ahead of next year’s centennial celebration of the 1911-12 race to be the first to reach the South Pole.

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Polar Sidekicks Earn a Place on the Map

Michelle Rodriguez, who played the cocky helicopter pilot in James Cameron’s “Avatar”, has announced that she will be joining the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on their next Antarctic campaign.