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 ...

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 ...

NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured imagery of the iceberg slowly drifting northeastward away from Antarctica and toward South Georgia Island, but in February, it ran aground southwest of the ...

That is the same current of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to make his storied escape from Antarctica after losing his ship, the Endurance. The legendary shipwreck was ...