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.

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.

Lying 800 miles east off the Falkland Islands and a thousand miles north of Antarctica ... abandoned whaling stations have even rusted away, whales have begun returning to South Georgia in ...

When whale numbers there plummeted, they turned attention to Antarctica. For decades, South Georgia was the world's largest whaling station, with Edinburgh-based Christian Salvesen Company ...

We went on excursions and saw wildlife throughout Antarctica ... we set sail for South Georgia. Here, we saw countless fur seals amid the ruins of old whaling stations. We also visited Salisbury ...

The Endurance shipwreck spent 107 years submerged in Antarctic waters before ... rowboat to reach a whaling station on the island of South Georgia. It took an additional four months to organize ...

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The last ship on which famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage has been found. The vessel, named ‘Quest’, ...

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 ...