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A23a has run aground in the Southern Ocean after years adrift. But could it continue on its collision course in the future?
But before the Endurance could reach the coast of Antarctica, the ship became ... rowboat to reach a whaling station on the island of South Georgia. It took an additional four months to organize ...
the island seems almost tropically lush. (In Antarctica there are two native species of vascular plants; on South Georgia there are 26.) To the explorer Ernest Shackleton—whose ship Endurance ...
He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island ... on the remote but inhabited island of South Georgia. That they survived such a long voyage despite stormy weather ...
London-born merchant Antoine de la Roche may have been the first person to sight South Georgia Island or any of its Sub-Antarctic counterparts. In April 1675, as he was sailing from Lima to ...
The government and treasury of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands issued a ... of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, also known as the Endurance Expedition. The expedition was ...
has re-produced a high-resolution updated map of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. The island, situated at 37°W 54°10’S is a haven for wildlife, a centre for wildlife and fisheries ...
Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, has been found after 107 years. This 4k footage shows the preserved vessel 3008 metres below the ocean surface, discovered just four miles south of the ...
The massive A23a iceberg, one of the biggest ever recorded, is drifting toward South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic.
Every year for four decades, 26 governments banded together in the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine ... off the coast of South Georgia, an uninhabited island it controls in ...
Newly released satellite footage shows the world’s largest iceberg running aground near a remote island ... ice over Antarctica attributed to anthropogenic climate change.” South Georgia ...