South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized ... on to rescue the men who had been left at King Haakon Bay and Elephant Island. Amazingly, not a single man was lost on the expedition.

Today they number in the low millions, the vast majority of which breed on South Georgia. Likewise, hundreds of thousands of southern elephant seals come to the island each summer to breed and to ...

On 24 April 1916 Shackleton and five of his men began an epic 800-mile open-boat voyage to South Georgia, leaving the remaining 22 men behind on Elephant Island After three frustrated rescue ...

Elephant seals viewed from a drone on South Georgia (Pic BAS) A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of ...

The Living Edens: South Georgia Island shows examples of organisms that ... leopard seals, krill, elephant seals, snow petrels, skuas, fur seals, squid, various insects, and grass.

Protecting remaining strongholds and minimising human impacts on food sources will be crucial to avoiding further population decline of this remarkable creature.

A23a has run aground in the Southern Ocean after years adrift. But could it continue on its collision course in the future?

Today, the largest southern elephant seal populations are found on subantarctic islands, including South Georgia, Macquarie Island and the Falkland Islands. These colonies act as global ...