South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

an abandoned whaling station on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. From 1904 to 1966 thousands of whales were slaughtered and butchered here. Whaling ships brought rats, which predated the ...

According to his coördinates, he was on the Titan Dome, an ice formation near the South Pole that rises ... The island, deserted except for a few whaling stations, was the explorers’ last ...

Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

After three days in the Falklands, we set sail for South Georgia. Here, we saw countless fur seals amid the ruins of old whaling stations. We also visited Salisbury Plain, home to tens of ...

In situations of extreme danger, many report having perceived a figure that comforts and guides — is it our brain’s emergency survival mechanism?

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia ... and with great difficulty arrived at a whaling station. The sudden approach over the cliffs ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

journeyed 800 miles in the tiny James Caird to South Georgia, marched 40 miles across its uncharted, glaciered interior to reach a whaling station, and returned for the castaways on Elephant Island.

Robert Burton, Director of the South Georgia Whaling Museum from 1994 to 1997, is creating what he calls a "virtual museum" -- a South Georgia History Database. He's using his scholarship to build ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership departed on its first expedition as the country plans to expand its commercial hunts. The Kangei Maru, the successor to the ...