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

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

After three days in the Falklands, we set sail for South Georgia. Here, we saw countless fur seals amid the ruins of old whaling stations. We also visited Salisbury Plain, home to tens of ...

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 ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

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.

According to his coördinates, he was on the Titan Dome, an ice formation near the South Pole that rises ... The island, deserted except for a few whaling stations, was the explorers’ last ...

Both the filmmaker and the Dougherty County Board of Commissioners believe that this Black Heritage Trail will bring lots of ...

Robert Burton, Director of the South Georgia Whaling Museum from 1994 to 1997, is creating what he calls a "virtual museum" -- a South Georgia History Database. He's using his scholarship to build ...

particularly in the Deep South. On the night of Feb. 13, 2000, 25 years ago tonight, a swarm of strong tornadoes were spawned over parts of southwestern Georgia. Nineteen were killed and 202 injured.

Commuter Rail and Amtrak trains leaving and arriving at Boston's South Station experienced delays Saturday afternoon, following a "slow-speed upright derailment" outside of the station ...

Several trains were cancelled Saturday afternoon due to a derailed commuter train outside South Station, officials said, on the eve of what has been forecasted to potentially be the heaviest snow ...