The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia.
The outgoing Commissioner for South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Nigel Phillips CBE said, “As my tenure as Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands drew to a close, I ...
A new Research and Monitoring Plan has been launched to help support the management of the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area, MPA. The announcement was done in the ...
Environmentalists fear for the island's rare king penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals if iceberg collides.
It would not be the first time an iceberg has hit the islands. In 2004, the A38 berg collided with South Georgia and Sandwich Islands, which resulted in the deaths of penguin chicks and seal pups.
Shackleton made the trip to the island in just three weeks. “Usually the icebergs take a bit longer (he had sails),” he said. A map of South Georgia and Sandwich Islands: Eventually ...
And large slabs of ice are breaking off, plunging into the waters around its edges. This isn't the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and Sandwich Islands. In 2004 one called A38 grounded on ...