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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 ...
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 ...
Operating under the allocated callsign VP0SG, this ambitious activation will target one of the rarest and most logistically ...
The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...
The colossal ice mass, currently 173 miles away, is spinning northward from Antarctica and could potentially ground itself against the island ... of elephant and fur seals. South Georgia's ...
elephant seals, fur seals, leopard seals and Weddell seals. (Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands) Scientists are still digging into the impact that this had on the local ...
Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever ...
This isn't the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and Sandwich Islands. In 2004 one called ... of King penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals. "South Georgia sits in iceberg ...
Technically, the hundred-mile-long, 20 mile-wide British overseas territory of South ... the island. The island also has some of the largest and most significant populations of elephant seals ...
“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 ...