The rapid expansion, over-exploitation and subsequent decline in whale stocks in the northern hemisphere in the 20th century ...
Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on Antarctica with his crew. The now-dilapidated Stromness Manager's Villa was ...
Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.