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=== New Zealand ===
In 2006, the New Zealand police reported that jurisdictional issues prevented them issuing warrants for potential American witnesses who were reluctant to testify during the [[Christchurch]] Coroner's investigation into the death by poisoning of Australian astrophysicist [[Rodney Marks]] at the South Pole base in May 2000.<ref name="stuffSunday">Hotere, Andrea.  [http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/3902305a6442.html "South Pole death file still open".] ''Sunday Star Times'', 17 December 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2006.</ref><ref name="DPA">Deutsche Presse-Agentur.  [http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/printer_1233162.php "Death of Australian astrophysicist an Antarctic whodunnit".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901103854/http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/printer_1233162.php |date=1 September 2007 }} ''Monstersandcritics.com'', 14 December 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2006.</ref> Marks died while wintering over at the United States' [[Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station]] located at the geographic South Pole. Prior to autopsy, the death was attributed to natural causes by the [[National Science Foundation]] and the contractor administering the base. However, an autopsy in New Zealand revealed that Marks died from [[methanol]] poisoning. The [[New Zealand Police]] launched an investigation. In 2006, frustrated by lack of progress, the Christchurch Coroner said that it was unlikely that Marks ingested the methanol knowingly, although there is no certainty that he died as the direct result of the act of another person. During media interviews, the police detective in charge of the investigation criticized the National Science Foundation and contractor [[Raytheon]] for failing to cooperate with the investigation.<ref name="TelegraphChapman">Chapman, Paul. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070327103228/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/14/wpole14.xml "New Zealand Probes What May Be First South Pole Murder".] ''The Daily Telegraph'', (14 December 2006), reprinted in [http://www.nysun.com/article/45132 ''The New York Sun''] (19 December 2006). Retrieved 19 December 2006.</ref><ref name="nzherald">Booker, Jarrod. [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10415310&ref=rss "South Pole scientist may have been poisoned".] ''The New Zealand Herald'', (14 December 2006). Retrieved 19 December 2006.</ref><ref name="Sunday Star Times Jan21">[http://www.stuff.co.nz/3935255a11.html "South Pole Death Mystery – Who killed Rodney Marks?"] ''Sunday Star Times'' (21 January 2007)</ref>