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

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 ...

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

The iceberg calved off West Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986 and previously hosted a Soviet research station ... Why does it pose a threat to South Georgia? The iceberg could ground ...

working at a scientific station. The move was a precursor to Argentine forces invading the British overseas territory of the Falkland’s Islands on April 2, 1982 and South Georgia the following ...

From the culinary specialties of Tasmania to the plethora of wildlife in the Seychelles, islands far and wide are home to a ...

Princess Anne and her husband Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence arrived Monday in the Falklands for a visit to the Islands ... Station and Carr Maritime Gallery. The Princess Royal is patron of South ...

and the oldest wooden commercial whaling vessel still afloat. Ship logbooks of its many whale hunting voyages, along with hundreds of others from New England, may provide a treasure island for ...

Conservation groups are concerned that the endangered right whale is vulnerable to extinction as the Trump administration ...

None of these powerful opponents has proven more consequential than the island ... monitors aboard whaling ships as well as whale “counters” and DNA testers at whaling stations to verify ...