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 ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia, the crossing of South Georgia and his four subsequent attempts to rescue the remainder of his ...

Currently, A23a is about 280km from the island. South Georgia will be familiar to many fans of polar exploration. It's the spot where Ernest Shackleton and five men landed after an incredible 1 ...

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 ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice named A23a could slam into South Georgia ... Henry Shackleton who led British expeditions to the southern continent. Shackleton made the trip to the island in just ...

The island of South Georgia is home to king penguin colonies and millions of fur and elephant seals Credit: LPhot Lee Blease/Cover Images Laura Taylor, a biogeochemist who also took part in the ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — could slam into South Georgia Island and get stuck or ... current path has been known since Shackleton's time," he said, referring to Sir ...

That is the same current of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 ... was confident the iceberg would sidestep South Georgia. "The island acts as an obstacle for ocean currents ...

A 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 ...