The conflict has shone a light on the practice of illegal mining in South Africa amid economic despair in the country. Salomé Kotzé lives in Orkney, a town about 16 miles from Stilfontein that ...

An urgent evacuation order has been issued for residents living near the Vaal River, including the town of Orkney, after ...

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Councillor says that while evacuations have happened, the process is being handled better than the nightmare of 2023.

The icebreaker and survey ship recorded the worrying changes when she visited Coronation Island – a forbidding lump of rock and ice 45km long and the largest isle in the South Orkney chain.

The red star indicates the position of South Orkney during the late Eocene (37 million years ago). The blue regions indicate where Antarctica may have had land ice at the time. The grey and light ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...