The rusting buildings and skeleton ships of South Georgia act as a monument to the whaling era.

When the island of South Georgia was a booming whaling station, in the roaring forties, more than a century ago, Grytviken received what was to be the first church established in the Antarctic ...

The first whaling vessels arrived just as the last sealers retreated, and between 1904 and 1965, 175,250 whales were processed in seven whaling facilities in South Georgia.

South Georgia is a remote island about 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands and home to several whaling stations operating from the turn of the century through the 1960s.

Seven relic whaling stations remain on South Georgia, mostly off-limits due to dangerous structures and asbestos.

South Georgia is a remote island about 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands and home to several whaling stations operating from the turn of the century through the 1960s.

South Georgia is a remote island about 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands and home to several whaling stations operating from the turn of the century through the 1960s.

The harpooned whales of South Georgia met a brutal fate: winched onto boats then dumped on land, they were dragged to industrial whaling stations… ...

South Georgia is a remote island about 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands and home to several whaling stations operating from the turn of the century through the 1960s. In a little over 60 ...

On the Antarctic island of South Georgia, in February, toward the middle of what passes for summer at the bottom of the world, I hurried through the ruined whaling station of Grytviken.