“National Geographic wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory takes audiences on an adventure to iconic South Georgia Island. Sailing through the roughest ocean on the planet in a 50-foot bo ...

From a wider conservation point of view, South Georgia is one of the world's stand-out success stories. Image: Gentoo penguins are part of the island's rich wildlife Until the 1960s, it was a ...

Upside for wildlife? - The world's biggest and oldest ... Along with the nearby South Sandwich islands, South Georgia is home to around five million seals and 65 million breeding birds from ...

The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground off the coast of a remote British island home to millions of penguins and seals — potentially threatening local wildlife, but also providing an ...

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, has grounded 73 kilometers off South Georgia Island, alleviating concerns about a potential collision that could have disrupted the local wildlife's food supply.

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...

The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...

The colossal iceberg A23a – which is more than twice the size of Greater London and weighs nearly one trillion tonnes – has been drifting north from Antarctica towards South Georgia island since 2020.