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Kōrero: Antarctica and New Zealand

British Antarctic interest

The strategic and economic reasons motivating Britain's interest in the Antarctic are spelt out in this 1920 dispatch from London to Lord Liverpool, governor-general of New Zealand.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: G48 Box 1 A/3

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Nigel Roberts, Antarctica and New Zealand – The Ross Dependency, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/37195/british-antarctic-interest (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nigel Roberts, i tāngia i te 12 June 2012.