Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Game of Thrones style ice wall on course to hit British island - The world’s largest iceberg, stretching from horizon to horizon, is on course to hit South Georgia Island ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

Currently, A23a is about 280km from the island. South Georgia will be familiar to many fans of polar exploration. It's the spot where Ernest Shackleton and five men landed after an incredible 1 ...

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton slab of ice — ...

That is the same current of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 ... was confident the iceberg would sidestep South Georgia. "The island acts as an obstacle for ocean currents ...

Shackleton made the trip to the island in just three weeks ... which are in their summer breeding cycle, Meijers said. “South Georgia is an amazingly ecologically rich island.

If it gets stuck near South Georgia Island, that could make it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young could starve.