Skip to main content

Story: 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.

Using this item

Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: G48 Box 1 A/3

Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any re-use of this material.

All images & media in this story

How to cite this page

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

Story by Nigel Roberts, published 12 June 2012.