The island seems marked in some unusual way ... was hauled ashore at South Georgia's Grytviken whaling station in 1912. The 1920s saw the introduction of factory whaling ships that could catch ...

An inside detail of the Whalers' Church, over a century old When the island of South Georgia was a booming whaling station, in the roaring forties, more than a century ago, Grytviken received what ...

Port Louis was established by Louis de Bougainville in 1764 as the first French settlement on the islands. On March 25th the Princess Royal will travel to Grytviken, South Georgia, on MV Pharos ...

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

The wooden cross stood for almost 100 years at King Edward Point, South Georgia, near Grytviken ... of ocean before reaching the island of South Georgia. The last voyage Ernest Shackleton took ...

In an old schoolroom in the Scottish Highlands, sculptor Michael Visocchi is working on Commensalis, a huge work that will be installed thousands of miles away, in Grytviken, an abandoned whaling ...

Shackleton reached Grytviken on South Georgia Island onboard the Quest but suffered a fatal heart attack during this last ...