In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora of biodiverse species, South Georgia’s future was in question as A23a barreled toward it for almost five years.

Sally Poncet first came to South Georgia in 1977. Back then, she said, the sub-Antarctic island was as gorgeous as it is today: A spine of mountains, some 100 miles long, defines the terrain ...

Gigantic iceberg A68 threatens the island of South Georgia, in the South Atlantic Ocean, on December 17, 2020. More recent satellite images suggest that the iceberg has, as predicted, come to rest ...

Now, that iceberg is headed directly for South Georgia Island — threatening to devastate the fragile penguin colony that calls the island home. The European Space Agency says the iceberg, ...

Island Insights . Until the 1982 conflict in the Falkland Islands commanded the world's attention, few had heard of South Georgia Island.

World's largest iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor 04:09. The world's biggest iceberg — three time the size of New York City — could drift toward a remote island where a ...

When you tell people that you’re going to South Georgia, some will ask if you’re changing planes in Atlanta. In fact, the name belongs to an island near Antarctica. It’s about the size of ...

Before South Georgia was discovered by Captain James Cooke in 1775, the island was home to tens of millions of birds, from the endemic pipits and pintail ducks, to burrowing seabirds and vast ...

South Georgia Island, isolated in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is an unforgiving place, but it's been a holy grail for large seabird colonies, as well as famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

The South Georgia pipet is found nowhere else on Earth. Oliver Prince The island is around 160 kilometers (100 miles) long, with an area of 865,000 acres (350,000 hectares), and is frequently ...

On South Georgia, freedom comes at the expense of comfort and safety. British explorer Captain James Cook, who was the first to sail around the island in 1775, called it “a land doomed to ...