Australia moved Tuesday to protect a swathe of ocean territory by expanding an Antarctic marine park that is home to penguins, seals, whales and the country's only two active volcanos. The marine ...

Australia's Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have headed to one of our three bases—Mawson, Davis and Casey—as well as the base ...

A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, killing an estimated 13,000 seal pups, as well as penguins and seabirds, ...

Australia’s icebreaker ship has scraped the sea floor during a research mission to the Antarctic. The incident happened on Monday near Heard Island, 4100km southwest of Perth, and is the first time in ...

Testing confirms spread of deadly H5N1 virus on the subantarctic Heard Island, about 4,000km south-west of Perth ...

Australia's icebreaker has been involved in an incident in which the ship's hull "made contact with the ocean floor" off the coast of Heard Island in the Southern Ocean. The incident occurred on ...

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Antarctica (pictured) is located around 1,700 kilometres (1,056 miles) from Australia's Heard Island and McDonald Island - Copyright AFP SARAH DAWALIBI Antarctica ...

More than 13,000 southern elephant seal pups have died following an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu on Australia's remote Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported, citing ABC News ...