Dive into a bit of history in the waters surrounding this remote Antarctic island, the site of famed explorer Sir Ernest ...

Michael Visocchi’s sculpture Commensalis, celebrates the whales of Antarctica who are beginning to return to the island of South Georgia.

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

From the culinary specialties of Tasmania to the plethora of wildlife in the Seychelles, islands far and wide are home to a ...

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 ...

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.

T here was a time when, to use the old adage, the sun did not set on the British Empire. It certainly didn’t back in 1920, when this globe-straddling entity reached its territorial apex – a ...

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 ...

On South Georgia, three of the party ... As they neared the whaling station of Stromness, they heard a steam whistle in the distance; their first sign of other human life in almost 18 months.

His widow chose South Georgia Island as the site where he’d be buried. Shackleton’s Grave, near the now-defunct Grytviken whaling station, is the place to toast (ideally with whiskey) the explorer at ...