South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

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

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...