This was the end of whaling at South Georgia but there is a postscript. Salvesen's bought the leases of all the whaling stations on the Island in the mid-1970s, on the off-chance that whaling or ...

Dive into a bit of history in the waters surrounding this remote Antarctic island, the site of famed explorer Sir Ernest ...

crossing 800 miles of mountainous seas to the whaling stations of South Georgia—that snowy island looked like paradise. Last February photographer Paul Nicklen and I retraced Shackleton's route.

From 1904 onwards, multiple whaling stations operated along the coast ... South Georgia Heritage Trust, Friends of South Georgia Island and the World Wildlife Fund, and involves over 40 whale ...

The venture is noteworthy, not least because it will be the first such survey conducted in the vicinity of the island since its whaling stations were abandoned in the late 1960s. "South Georgia ...

Michael Visocchi’s sculpture Commensalis, celebrates the whales of Antarctica who are beginning to return to the island of ...

South Georgia's beaches get very busy during the breeding season Shackleton's escape from the Antarctic in 1916 is well told. It is without doubt a remarkable story given the many challenges he ...

This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November ... whaling museums in the USA, South Georgia, Norway and the Shetland Islands and more of work can ...

Shackleton died in 1922 in South Georgia during his final expedition ... and was made with salvaged wood from a whaling station. It was painted white to protect the wood, but decades of Antarctic ...

“It was made from a whaling station in South Georgia, by the hands of crewmen on his ship. By putting it on public display, it gives the public a chance to remember a great leader. “That human ...