the weather had been very bad around South Georgia during the month with the result that “whaling has been particularly poor.” “The factories in the ice [however] appear to be doing very ...

Some 114 years later, I, a tourist, shared that sense of awe while on the Peninsula of Antarctica ... between 1904 and 1965 the six South Georgia whaling stations processed 175,250 whales ...

We disembarked at Grytviken’s former whaling station, inhabited only by British Antarctic Survey scientists and South Georgia Heritage Trust staff who run another post office, museum ...

The Whalers’ Memory Bank brings together new and lost stories of Scottish whalers and their intrepid adventures on South ...

Seven relic whaling stations remain on South Georgia ... a bucket-list trip When we finally leave to sail south to Antarctica, South Georgia delivers a spectacular farewell.

But when it's Antarctica, every footstep matters ... Shackleton's desperate sea and land journey to a South Georgia Island whaling station in the southern Atlantic Ocean in 1916.

I had joined Aurora Expeditions’ “Antarctica Complete” trip ... fur seal pups barked from the rusted remains of a whaling station. A South Georgia pipit, the southernmost songbird in ...

Shackelton, one of the greatest Antarctic explorers, is buried on South Georgia Island. There were seven whaling stations on the island from 1904 to 1965. The island had a community of workers and ...