South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

an abandoned whaling station on the Antarctic island of South Georgia. Whaling ships and equipment were taken Grytviken and assembled there. Now it is an industrial scrapyard; ships rust on the ...

Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

After three days in the Falklands, we set sail for South Georgia. Here, we saw countless fur seals amid the ruins of old whaling stations. We also visited Salisbury Plain, home to tens of ...

In situations of extreme danger, many report having perceived a figure that comforts and guides — is it our brain’s emergency ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia ... and with great difficulty arrived at a whaling station. The sudden approach over the cliffs ...

They were once numerous off the East Coast, but their numbers were devastated during the commercial whaling era ... calving grounds off Florida and Georgia to feeding grounds off New England ...

journeyed 800 miles in the tiny James Caird to South Georgia, marched 40 miles across its uncharted, glaciered interior to reach a whaling station, and returned for the castaways on Elephant Island.

In 2005, a ship hunting Patagonian toothfish near South Georgia in the South Atlantic ... and spent much of the 1920s working on whaling ships or on the stations that supported them across the ...