Port Louis was established by Louis de Bougainville in 1764 as the first French settlement on the islands. On March 25th the Princess Royal will travel to Grytviken, South Georgia, on MV Pharos ...

Today, South Georgia is known as one of sub-Antarctica’s most stunning beautiful and rugged islands, with a long ... to a group of scientists, based in Grytviken, who were undertaking vital ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.

The iceberg cometh. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles in size and located about 173 miles from the ...

The mega-iceberg poses a significant threat to South Georgia Island a remote wildlife haven. The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is drifting toward South Georgia Island, a remote and ecologically ...

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is drifting toward South Georgia Island, a remote and ecologically vital wildlife haven. This massive block of ice, about the size of Rhode Island, poses a ...

The iceberg may drift past the continental shelf into open waters beyond South Georgia, a British overseas territory located about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) east of the Falkland Islands.

But it began to move again last year and is now approaching South Georgia Island, a small island mainly populated by penguins and seals. The iceberg had been stuck in a rotating water column near ...

Currently, the gigantic iceberg A23a is moving toward the South Atlantic Ocean and will strike South Georgia Island in two to ...