The AJC reports Charlton County approved a nearly $50 million agreement with ICE in June the expand the Folkston Processing Center from 1,100 detainees to nearly 3,000.

Since the project launched in June 2023 the South Georgia Museum has run a number of workshops with whaling veterans where they shared their stories, knowledge and personal collections.

These fascinating real-life experiences are told through film, oral histories, photographs and more. Visitors to the Memory Bank will be able to find out more about the whaling community’s lives as ...

The Whalers’ Memory Bank brings together new and lost stories of Scottish whalers and their intrepid adventures on South Georgia island.

A MEMORY bank bringing together new and lost stories from Scottish whalers and their adventures to South Georgia Island is set to be unveiled next week. The South Georgia Heritage Trust and South ...

While commercial whaling in the twentieth century killed big whale populations, it also appears to have had a long-term impact on the genetic variety of today's surviving whales, according to a ...

On the opposite side of the planet, the small Norwegian island and former whaling station of Jan Mayen faces 10% tariffs. But no one lives there permanently (a few military personnel rotate in ...

But before the abandoned whaling stations have even rusted away, whales have begun returning to South Georgia in large numbers.

By 1825, an estimated 1.2 million fur seals were slaughtered for their pelts; between 1904 and 1965 the six South Georgia whaling stations processed 175,250 whales for their profitable oil and ...

The harpooned whales of South Georgia met a brutal fate: winched onto boats then dumped on land, they were dragged to industrial whaling stations… ...