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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

On the Antarctic island of South Georgia, in February, toward the middle of what passes for summer at the bottom of the world, I hurried through the ruined whaling station of Grytviken.

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 ...

according to the British Antarctic Survey, a research group focusing on polar science. The group has a station in South Georgia, which is a British territory. The iceberg looks like a "towering ...