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

This was the end of whaling at South Georgia but there is a postscript. Salvesen's bought the leases of all the whaling stations on the Island in the mid-1970s, on the off-chance that whaling or ...

Grytviken, where the artwork will be installed, is the largest former whaling station on the island The South Georgia Heritage Trust and the government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich ...

The electricity produced then was mainly used for lighting the whaling station ... In 1985 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands became a distinct UK Overseas Territory with a Commissioner ...

crossing 800 miles of mountainous seas to the whaling stations of South Georgia—that snowy island looked like paradise. Last February photographer Paul Nicklen and I retraced Shackleton's route.

I bought it the first time I went down to South Georgia — to work as an electrician ... There was an annual ski competition between all the whaling stations. I had learnt to ski but I took ...