An inside detail of the Whalers' Church, over a century old When the island of South Georgia was a booming whaling station, in the roaring forties, more than a century ago, Grytviken received what ...

Today Grytviken's former whaling station on South Georgia - the only one open to visitors - has been likened to an industrial scrapyard: beached and broken ships litter the shoreline, rusting ...

Shackleton was buried on the 5 of March at the whaling station, Grytviken, a ceremony attended by the managers of the five stations on South Georgia and a hundred whalers and seamen. The story of ...

The largest whale ever recorded, a female blue more than 110 feet long, was hauled ashore at South Georgia's Grytviken whaling station in 1912. The 1920s saw the introduction of factory whaling ...

The wooden cross stood for almost 100 years at King Edward Point, South Georgia, near Grytviken, before it was replaced with a replica in 2018 to preserve the original memorial from the elements.

Today Grytviken's former whaling station on South Georgia - the only one open to visitors - has been likened to an industrial scrapyard: beached and broken ships litter the shoreline, rusting tanks ...