Wandering albatrosses reach a wingspan of over 350 cm. Thus, it is the bird with the largest wingspan in the world. Normally, wandering albatrosses live to be 60 to 70 years old, but in exceptional cases they can live to be over 80 years old. (Photo: Heiner Kubny)...
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 subpolar natural gem of South Georgia is home to tens of thousands of king penguins, as seen here in St. Andrews Bay off Mt. Brooker (1881 m) and the Cook Glacier in the foothills of the Allardyce Range. (Photo: Christoph Höbenreich) The subpolar island world No...
Operations Manager Elise Grøndahl had the great honour of christening the brand new and, according to the company, standard-setting ship in South Georgia. In the process, she let a large chunk of ice shatter against the side of the ship instead of a champagne bottle....
