On September 13th 1909, 100 years ago, the “SS Starlight” arrived at South Georgia with men and materials to erect a shore whaling station. Her destination was a cove in Stromness Bay which ...

Researchers examined DNA from whale bones found on beaches near abandoned whaling stations on South Georgia Island in the south Atlantic Ocean to DNA from whales in the current population and ...

Then, early in the 20th century, with the invention of fast, steam-powered catcher boats and explosive harpoons, they built whaling stations on South Georgia and turned their attention to the big ...

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

I had stayed down in South Georgia to work through the winter ... There was an annual ski competition between all the whaling stations. I had learnt to ski but I took my hat off to the guys ...

an abandoned whaling station on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. From 1904 to 1966 thousands of whales were slaughtered and butchered here. Whaling ships brought rats, which predated the ...

"South Georgia's whaling stations were able to continue by switching to other species, going after blues, fins, and then sei whales. It was a sequential collapse," Dr Zerbini told BBC News.

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 ...

“It was made from a whaling station in South Georgia, by the hands of crewmen on his ship. By putting it on public display, ...