A team of cartographers at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) 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 ...
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A Trillion-Ton Megaberg is Heading for South Georgia Island: Here’s What it Means for the Wildlife That Lives ThereA 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island near Antarctica. Imagine if the ice wall from Game of Thrones were mobile ...
British Antarctic Survey’s detailed map of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia featuring the epic “Shackleton Crossing” has won an award at the 2018 British Cartography Society Awards.
Shackleton made the trip to the island in just three weeks. “Usually the icebergs take a bit longer (he had sails),” he said. A map of South Georgia and Sandwich Islands: Eventually ...
Click on the inset map of South Georgia to see Shackleton's route across South Georgia, which Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, and Stephen Venables retraced in April 2000.
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