Seven key locations were identified for the NZ ITASE (International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition) programme. The analyses on the ice core from the first site, Victoria Lower Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, have almost been completed. For the 2004/05 field season we proposed to recover intermediate length cores from sites 2 and 3: Evans Piedmont Glacier and Mt Erebus Saddle. Additionally we recover a shallow 21m core from Windless Bight. Furthermore we continued our longer-term mass balance measurement time series at Victoria Lower Glacier.