The abandoned whaling station at Leith Harbour on South Georgia in the south Atlantic looks as if it has been bombed. Rusty steel chimneys lie collapsed across the roadways. Power plants and ...

On September 13th 1909, 100 years ago, the “SS Starlight” arrived at South Georgia with men and materials to erect a shore whaling station. Her destination was a cove in Stromness Bay which ...

The Whalers’ Memory Bank brings together new and lost stories of Scottish whalers and their intrepid adventures on South ...

At the end of each whaling season, when the stations reduced to a small maintenance crew for the winter, these catchers used to be left in South Georgia’s more sheltered bays. Close to their ...

A MEMORY bank bringing together new and lost stories from Scottish whalers and their adventures to South Georgia Island is set to be unveiled next week.

Seven relic whaling stations remain on South Georgia, mostly off-limits due to dangerous structures and asbestos. We hike between two of them – from Leith to Stromness – where I sight the old ...

Researchers compared DNA from a collection of whale bones found on beaches near abandoned whaling stations on South Georgia Island in the south Atlantic Ocean to DNA from whales in the present-day ...

At Godthul, our second landing site of that long, single day, fur seal pups barked from the rusted remains of a whaling station. A South Georgia pipit, the southernmost songbird in the world ...

The abandoned whaling station at Leith Harbour on South Georgia in the south Atlantic looks as if it has been bombed. Rusty steel chimneys lie collapsed across the roadways. Power plants and ...

Researchers compared DNA from a collection of whale bones found on beaches near abandoned whaling stations on South Georgia Island in the south Atlantic Ocean to DNA from whales in the present-day ...