On September 13th 1909, 100 years ago, the “SS Starlight” arrived at South Georgia with men and materials to erect a shore whaling station. Her destination was a cove in Stromness Bay which ...

"There may be a little bit of impact, particularly on gentoo penguins, which still forage around the island during the winter ...

From 1904 onwards, multiple whaling stations operated along the coast of South Georgia, killing humpback whales close to the coast first (1904-1920), then blue and fin whales further offshore ...

The harpooned whales of South Georgia met a brutal fate: winched onto boats then dumped on land, they were dragged to industrial whaling stations and systematically butchered. Between 1904 and ...

Then, early in the 20th century, with the invention of fast, steam-powered catcher boats and explosive harpoons, they built whaling stations on South Georgia and turned their attention to the big ...

The island has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg, A23a, ran aground off its south-west coast. There's a concern it could impact wildlife on the island - but the timing is ...

I had stayed down in South Georgia to work through the winter ... There was an annual ski competition between all the whaling stations. I had learnt to ski but I took my hat off to the guys ...

Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...

This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November 1961 ... to several whaling museums in the USA, South Georgia, Norway and the Shetland Islands and ...

The harpooned whales of South Georgia met a brutal fate: winched onto boats then dumped on land, they were dragged to industrial whaling stations and systematically butchered. Between 1904 and 1966, ...