Salvesen's bought the leases of all the whaling stations on the Island in the mid-1970s, on the off-chance that whaling or some other industry might become viable in the future.

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

South Georgia, located about 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands was home to multiple whaling operations from the turn of the century until the 1960s.

Today it teems with wildlife, but South Georgia's human history is marked by decades of industrial-scale whaling. That will now be commemorated by a series of sculptures set to become one of the ...

This is me with my Voigtlander Prominent camera. I bought it the first time I went down to South Georgia — to work as an electrician for Christian Salvesen, Britain's biggest whaling company.

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 ...

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 ...