Elephant seals viewed from a drone on South Georgia (Pic BAS) A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of ...

Operating under the allocated callsign VP0SG, this ambitious activation will target one of the rarest and most logistically ...

In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora ... as half the global population of Southern Elephant Seals. Adventurous tourists can come see these ...

Today they number in the low millions, the vast majority of which breed on South Georgia. Likewise, hundreds of thousands of southern elephant seals come to the island each summer to breed and to ...

The Living Edens: South Georgia Island shows examples of organisms ... Macaroni penguins, leopard seals, krill, elephant seals, snow petrels, skuas, fur seals, squid, various insects, and grass.

“One cannot be angry when one looks at a penguin,” wrote the English essayist John Ruskin in 1860. And he was right. Whether it was tears of joy, or my eyes watering at the fishy pong of ...

In his journal he described the island as “Lands doomed ... aspect that Cook took away from South Georgia was the huge abundance of fur seals, elephant seals and whales. When word of this ...

South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized ... on to rescue the men who had been left at King Haakon Bay and Elephant Island. Amazingly, not a single man was lost on the expedition.