Editing Ross Dependency (section)

==Other events==
[[File:Flag of the Ross Dependency (unofficial).svg|thumb|Unofficial flag of the Ross Dependency since 1995]]
In 1979, an [[Air New Zealand]] sightseeing flight crashed into the slopes of [[Mount Erebus]] killing all 257 people on board. It was the most deadly air crash in the history of both Antarctica and New Zealand (see [[Mount Erebus disaster]]).

In the summer of 1985, when the British non-governmental exploratory vessel ''Southern Quest'' sank in the Ross Sea, the [[United States Coast Guard]] helicopters rescued the crew, who were taken to McMurdo Station. The British expedition was criticised by scientists in the Antarctic because the rescue and return of the crew disrupted their work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/scotia/gooant/gooant0207.htm|title=Robert Swan Expedition 1984-85|publisher=Glasgow Digital Library|access-date=2007-03-25}}</ref>

In 2006, the New Zealand police reported that jurisdictional issues prevented them from issuing warrants for potential American witnesses who were reluctant to testify during the Christchurch Coroner's investigation into the poisoning death of [[Rodney Marks]] at the [[South Pole]] base.