Wellington, March 5 NZPA - Scott Base and the Kermadec Islands were the first New Zealand sites to be hit by the tsunami from the Chile's magnitude 8.8 earthquake last weekend, but the surges of water reverberated around New Zealand like water bouncing around a bathtub.

The results from 19 sea-level gauges around New Zealand reveal that six locations had peak wave heights of over one metre generated by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Chile on 27 February.

Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter & Underwater World has unveiled plans to completely renovate the attraction by August 2011.

Wellington, Jan 21 NZPA - The weather finally cleared enough to enable the placement of a koru-shaped memorial today at the site of the Mount Erebus crash.

Wellington, Nov 30 NZPA - Air New Zealand says it will discuss with the Government and Antarctica New Zealand whether more relatives of the Mt Erebus crash victims can travel to the accident scene.

Wellington, Nov 30 NZPA - Family of the victims of the Erebus Air New Zealand DC10 crash 30 years ago in Antarctica return home later today without being able to visit the crash site.

Wellington, Nov 29 NZPA - Relatives of victims of the Mt Erebus air disaster will tomorrow place a wreath on the mountain where the plane crash happened -- if conditions allow them to fly there.

Six people whose family members died in the crash landed in Antarctica on Friday.

Auckland, Nov 28 NZPA - Memorial services were held in Antarctica, France and New Auckland today to commemorate two Air New Zealand tragedies separated by 29 years.

Auckland, Nov 28 NZPA - A prayer will be said and a period of silence observed at Scott Base around 12.50pm today to mark the moment 30 years ago when an Air New Zealand plane crashed in Antarctica.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - A memorial trip to the crash site of the 1979 Mt Erebus air disaster has been postponed tonight after strong winds prevented helicopters from landing.

Six people whose family members died in the crash landed in Antarctica this afternoon.