An island located not far from Antarctica, South Georgia is a paradise for sea lions and birds, such at these king penguins (Photo: Heiner Kubny) South Georgia is looking to recruit two postal employees for the 2023-2024 season. An attractive job offer for exceptional...
This is how Scottish artist Michael Visocchi and the South Georgia Heritage Trust envision the installation: large steel tables, each with steel rivets representing a live whale per rivet. But proportionally, areas will be free for the whales killed. The whole...
The ship’s crew of “HMS Protector” attended a memorial service at Grytviken Cemetery on South Georgia 100 years after the death of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Penguins, polar landscapes and old whaling boats are among the many scenes...
Carl Anton Larsen was a Norwegian whaler and Antarctic explorer. In 1904 he founded the village of Grytviken on South Georgia. This marked the beginning of the industrialization of whaling in the southern Atlantic. (Photo: Wikipedia) Carl Anton Larsen was born on...
The picture from 1997 shows the full extent of the former whaling station Grytviken. After the turn of the millennium, the buildings and some other facilities were demolished or removed. Thus, today from the former whaling station only machines, furnaces, the church...
