South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized world and trapped in the most cruel of climates, but it was destined for discovery. From its first recorded sightings more than 300 years ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different ...

An ice mass has broken off from a glacier in Antarctica and, after more than 30 years, has begun its journey. Scientists from ...

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are one such example of the UK having jurisdiction over land outside mainland Britain—one that lies more than 7,500 miles away in the southern ...