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 ...

Researchers examined DNA from whale bones found on beaches near abandoned whaling stations on South Georgia Island in the south Atlantic Ocean to DNA from whales in the current population and ...

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.

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 ...

I bought it the first time I went down to South Georgia — to work as an electrician ... There was an annual ski competition between all the whaling stations. I had learnt to ski but I took ...

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 ...

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 ...