Antarctic News

A Kindly View Of Cook The Carer

Saturday June 2, 2007
IT WAS high summer, 1774, when Georg Forster crossed the Antarctic Circle on board Captain James Cook's ship Resolution. But as he recalled several years later, it did not feel, look or sound like summer to the 118 men shivering with cold and fear on the converted coal carrier.

Commercial Whaling On The Horizon

Friday June 1, 2007
JAPAN is modernising its whaling fleet ahead of this summer's Antarctic hunt in what is seen as evidence of its quest to resume full-scale commercial whaling.

Japan Beefs Up Whaling Fleet For Summer Hunt In Antarctic

Friday June 1, 2007
JAPAN is modernising its whaling fleet ahead of this summer's Antarctic hunt, in what is seen as hard evidence of its quest to resume full-scale commercial whaling.

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