Antarctica
Islands to Ice: The Great Southern Ocean and Antarctica
This permanent TMAG exhibition invites you on a journey south to explore the places, the people, the creatures and the phenomena that make this great southern wilderness a world of its own.
Islands to Ice education kit - supplementary resources
- Captain Cook sheet, The Mercury Newspaper (PDF 565.6 KB)
- Diagram of bathymetry of Southern Ocean (PDF 466.8 KB)
- Earliest perceptions map (PDF 574.2 KB)
- Engine of the oceans: ocean of circulation (PDF 233.0 KB)
- Food web (PDF 176.7 KB)
- Joseph Hatch product labels (PDF 272.5 KB)
- Overall map of region (PDF 243.1 KB)
- Shelter in Antarctica igloo satellite cabin (PDF 675.5 KB)
- Shelter in Antarctica Mawson's Hut (PDF 589.4 KB)
- Southern Ocean biomass (PDF 336.4 KB)
- Web of Life diagram 1 (PDF 306.4 KB)
- Web of Life with animal names (PDF 360.5 KB)
- Whale Media Archive part 1 (PDF 1.0 MB)
- Whale Media Archive part 2 (PDF 708.4 KB)
- Wind chill chart (PDF 131.7 KB)
- Under the ice: cross section through Antarctica (PDF 497.4 KB)
Ice e-mystery global student polar e-book
In this exciting collaborative project 12 classes from Alaskan schools and 12 from Australia wrote and illustrated polar mystery stories online.
- Ice e-mystery website
Giant squid video
This short video shows the journey of a rare giant squid after it washed up on the Tasmanian West Coast in 2007. Follow the story of the giant squid