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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

National Geography's engrossing new documentary on Disney+, Endurance ... them in tumultuous seas to reach Elephant Island ...

To mark 100 years since the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory ... 1915 when his vessel, the Endurance, became trapped ...

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 ...