The waters once ran red with whale blood - now South Georgia is a conservation success story
South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could ...
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South Georgia’s ground-fish survey reveals key insights of marine life
The waters surrounding South Georgia, nestled beneath glaciated mountains, are among the most biologically rich in the ...
What we learnt flying over the world's largest iceberg A23a - and why it's not long for this world
Flying over the massive iceberg, it's indistinguishable from the horizon. But as it melts, chunks of ice risk floating ...
‘Abundantly large’ deep-sea creature — ‘all legs’ — found off Antarctica. See it
While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...
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South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands designated landmass Protected Areas
The outgoing Commissioner for South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Nigel Phillips CBE said, “As my tenure as Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands drew to a close, I ...
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‘Abundantly large’ deep-sea creature — ‘all legs’ — found off Antarctica. See it
The South Sandwich Islands are east of Argentina and north of Antarctica in the south Atlantic ... and medical journalism from the University of Georgia and is now based in Atlanta.
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World's largest iceberg, A23a, grounded on British island
March 4 (UPI) --The oldest and largest iceberg on Earth landed on a sub-Antarctic island belonging to Britain Tuesday. According to the British Antarctic Survey research organization, the mass ...
World’s biggest iceberg runs aground, comes to standstill off remote island
A23a calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 and remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over 30 years.
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The World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground, Potentially Averting a Collision With Penguin and Seal Breeding Areas
After months of floating, the "megaberg" known as A23a has finally come to a halt roughly 50 miles from South Georgia Island ...
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World's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground near remote British island
A23a broke off from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf ... (Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands) Scientists are still digging into the impact that this had on the local ecosystem ...
Falkland Islands fears as residents voice 'unchanged threats' looming from Argentina
The Falklands War was an undeclared war between Argentina and Britain over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, South ...