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For Bettina Rusher, life and art have always been intertwined. The St. Simons Island resident first started her creative path ...
“I’ve been coming here since 2014 – South Georgia just draws me back,” SGHT’s island director, Deirdre Mitchell, tells me. She spends six months on the island each season.
Earth's largest iceberg has run aground off the coast of South Georgia Island, a common rendezvous spot for large icebergs, new satellite images show. Measuring 1,240 square miles (3,460 square ...
The gentoo penguin is featured on the second coin in the 2020 50-penny Penguin Series for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands from the Pobjoy Mint. The coin’s release follows the recent ...
A23a, as the iceberg is known, had briefly raised alarm bells over a potential collision with South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic, which is home to penguins and seals.
South Georgia Island, home to around 5 million seals and 65 million breeding birds, including 30 penguin species, has faced challenges this season due to a bird flu outbreak, further complicating ...
A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.
The so-called A23a iceberg, the world's largest, has run aground in South Georgia after almost 40 years at sea, threatening important penguin colonies.
A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.
As do several species of albatross, elephant seals and fur seals. The ocean around the islands is also increasingly important for whales, now returning after hunting them was banned. The iceberg is ...
The world’s largest iceberg, A-23A, is seen drifting toward the island of South Georgia on Feb. 6, as captured by NASA's Terra satellite. The island is the narrow strip of land just above and to ...