1.   If the participation of Russian institutions in Antarctic research is to continue, scientists say, they will require increasing international support.

2.   With an economy originally founded on wool, Christchurch is both a sedate city of English gardens and churches, as well as the rear base for Antarctic research.

3.   Anti-nuclear protesters on Saturday boarded and occupied a docked French Antarctic research and resupply ship to demand that France release two Greenpeace vessels it has impounded.

4.   Fifty containers designed to carry and confine rubbish from Antarctic research station garbage dumps set sail for Casey station from Hobart, on the island state of Tasmania.

5.   It operates its own Antarctic research station.

6.   Saburro heads Deepfreeze, which supplies American scientists working at Antarctic research stations.

7.   Fifty containers designed to confine rubbish from Antarctic research station tips were loaded onto the Aurora Australis, bound for Casey station.