At the end of each whaling season, when the stations reduced to a small maintenance crew for the winter, these catchers used to be left in South Georgia’s more sheltered bays. Close to their ...

Researchers examined DNA from whale bones found on beaches near abandoned whaling stations on South Georgia Island in the south Atlantic Ocean to DNA from whales in the current population and ...

The South Georgia Heritage Trust ... In 1904, Norwegians opened a whaling station there - that is, somewhere to process the whales' meat, blubber, and bones. In the next 60 years, more than ...

South Georgia, during his fourth expedition to the area. His crew honoured him by constructing a cross from salvaged timber ...

The cross originally stood in Grytviken, South Georgia, and was built to honour Sir Ernest Shackleton who died there in 1922.

In 1904, Norwegians opened a whaling station there to process the whales' meat, blubber, and bones. In the next 60 years, more than 175,000 whales were killed in the waters of South Georgia alone ...