Dive into a bit of history in the waters surrounding this remote Antarctic island, the site of famed explorer Sir Ernest ...

An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its more typical black-and-white ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...

which will likely push it toward South Georgia Island, where it will encounter warmer waters that would break it into smaller icebergs until it melts away. BAS oceanographer Andrew Meijers ...

"If it goes well, it's a week's commute from the UK," says Sarah Lurcock, director of the South Georgia Heritage Trust. But it does not always go well. "I have been on the boat [leaving the island ...

Michael Visocchi’s sculpture Commensalis, celebrates the whales of Antarctica who are beginning to return to the island of ...