To get here, everything hinges on one almighty, uncontrollable, unfathomable factor – the weather.

AN AUDIENCE OF curious wildlife greeted us and our kayaks in Cooper Sound on the north-eastern tip of South Georgia Island. Fur seals in their thousands surfing offshore reefs like crowded point ...

The Salvensen’s family Leith Harbour when the boom in whaling. On September 13th 1909, 100 years ago, the “SS Starlight” arrived at South Georgia with men and materials to erect a shore ...

Brian Keating, The Homestretch’s naturalist, says the South Georgia Island archipelago near Antarctica is once again a haven for birds after a program to kill the rats that were accidentally ...

A light-mantled sooty albatross looks down on Gold Harbour, South Georgia Island. Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic. Rat Invaders: Islands Fighting Back Against Killer Rodents.

There were 65 cruise ship visits to South Georgia in the 2014/15 season, which is the highest number since 2009/10. There were more ship visits (70) in the 2008/9 season but they only brought ...

Sailing from Argentina to Antarctica aboard a yacht is as big a journey as you'd imagine, and along the way I discover that most of the old sailing cliches are truisms.

Iceberg A23a, one of the world's largest and oldest icebergs, is advancing towards South Georgia, a British territory that is a wildlife paradise located about 280 kilometers away. Experts are ...