By 1904, the first land-based whaling station at South Georgia was set up in Grytviken. Whaling became a major activity at the island -- from 1904 to 1965, about 175,250 whales were processed there.

The Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose”, with a crew of 185 made a several days patrol visit to South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, GSSI, waters in December. The ship is fulfilling ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...

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 ...

The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...

The wooden cross stood for almost 100 years at King Edward Point, South Georgia, near Grytviken ... after their ship had sunk in the Antarctic winter. "His leadership is a thing that people ...