In 2017, they found around the island of South Orkney fragments of debris that originated in Antarctica. The only way for the Antarctic debris to travel all the way to South Orkney is via icebergs.

An iceberg seen on NASA’s Aqua satellite, known as A23a, center, is visible as it heads toward South Georgia Island, top, on Jan. 15, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica.

When you tell people that you’re going to South Georgia, some will ask if you’re changing planes in Atlanta. In fact, the name belongs to an island near Antarctica. It’s about the size of ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate ...

With a surface area of 3,360 square kilometers, the iceberg was heading north of Antarctica, towards South Georgia Island, driven since December by powerful ocean currents.

An iceberg that broke off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 2017 is slowly drifting off the coast of South Georgia Island, a British territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg ...

They speak of South Georgia Island in hushed, almost reverent terms. This small and mountainous island, with peaks above 9,000 feet, is located hundreds of miles from the closest beaten path.

An iceberg seen on NASA’s Aqua satellite, known as A23a, center, is visible as it heads toward South Georgia Island, top, on Jan. 15, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica. (NASA Worldview via AP) ...

South Georgia had a big problem. Rats and mice were decimating its native birds’ eggs and chicks. The rodents, which arrived on ships during the 19th and early 20th centuries, had spread over ...

The critically-endangered blue whale has returned to the waters near the remote island of South Georgia near Antarctica, almost 100 years after they were nearly made extinct.

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate ...