South Georgia Island Was Spared After The World's Largest Iceberg Grinded To A Halt, But It's Not Over Yet. Story by Emily Iris Degn • 2w. A major body of frozen water has run aground in the ...

Sally Poncet first came to South Georgia in 1977. Back then, she said, the sub-Antarctic island was as gorgeous as it is today: A spine of mountains, some 100 miles long, defines the terrain ...

When you tell people that you’re going to South Georgia, some will ask if you’re changing planes in Atlanta. In fact, the name belongs to an island near Antarctica. It’s about the size of ...

A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia Islands since last ...

Island Insights . Until the 1982 conflict in the Falkland Islands commanded the world's attention, few had heard of South Georgia Island.

South Georgia Island, isolated in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is an unforgiving place, but it's been a holy grail for large seabird colonies, as well as famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Gigantic iceberg A68 threatens the island of South Georgia, in the South Atlantic Ocean, on December 17, 2020. More recent satellite images suggest that the iceberg has, as predicted, come to rest ...

Before South Georgia was discovered by Captain James Cooke in 1775, the island was home to tens of millions of birds, from the endemic pipits and pintail ducks, to burrowing seabirds and vast ...

The South Georgia pipet is found nowhere else on Earth. Oliver Prince The island is around 160 kilometers (100 miles) long, with an area of 865,000 acres (350,000 hectares), and is frequently ...

The South Georgia pipit has been one of the hardest-hit species by the island's rodent population. The government announced Monday that the island is now rodent free. Brian Gratwicke/Flickr In the ...

On South Georgia, freedom comes at the expense of comfort and safety. British explorer Captain James Cook, who was the first to sail around the island in 1775, called it “a land doomed to ...