Pacific and Polar Regions

Pacific Ocean

Te Puna Web Directory - New Zealand and Pacific Islands (National Library of New Zealand)

Australia: Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
Black Stump: Australiana - All things Australian
Guide to Australia

New Zealand: Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
New Zealand on the Web

Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organisations (Scott Polar Research Institute, SPRI)
PolarWeb - Resources on the Arctic and Antarctic
Science from the Poles - Read about climate change at the poles and see video of scientists constructing a telescope at the South Pole (Exploratorium)

Antarctica: Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
Big Dead Place - The inside scoop on what it's like to live and work in Antarctica
Cool Antarctica - Scientific and travel information; pictures
Gateway to Antarctica
Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty - Organization to implement the international agreement regarding the continent

Various nations conduct research in Antarctica. These Web sites provide updates and other information.

Australian Antarctic Division
British Antarctic Survey
U.S. Antarctic Resource Center - Maps, satellite images, etc. of Antarctica. Includes an online, interactive atlas.

Even if you can't visit these libraries in person, their online catalogs can be useful for research.

Arctic Centre Library, Rovaniemi, Finland
Arctic Science and Technology Information System - A service of the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary
Cold Regions Bibliography - Archival database, 1962-2000 (Library of Congress)
Scott Polar Research Institute library and archives, Cambridge, England - Covers all subjects related to the Arctic, the Antarctic, and snow and ice elsewhere in the world
Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty documentation centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina