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 ...

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 ...

Celebrating the 3rd anniversary of finding Endurance, the Falklands Maritime ... Upon reaching South Georgia Island, they had to traverse its mountainous, glaciated interior to reach a whaling ...

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

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 ...