More than twice the size of greater London, the expanse of ice is unpredictable and dangerous.
Dive into a bit of history in the waters surrounding this remote Antarctic island, the site of famed explorer Sir Ernest ...
An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its more typical black-and-white ...
South Georgia Island, 250th Anniversary of British Possession, led by the great navigator James Cook
On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay in South Georgia Island. While his vessel HMS Resolution sat at anchor in the bay, Cook went ashore, hoisted the ...
"If it goes well, it's a week's commute from the UK," says Sarah Lurcock, director of the South Georgia Heritage Trust. But it does not always go well. "I have been on the boat [leaving the island ...
This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...
Michael Visocchi’s sculpture Commensalis, celebrates the whales of Antarctica who are beginning to return to the island of ...
Avian flu has been tested in kelp gulls. Photo credit_Lloyd Peck. Last month, October 2023, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was confirmed on Bird Island, South Georgia in the brown skua ...
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