After a day-and-a-half at sea and with my lunch still where it’s supposed to be, we caught our first glimpse of land at Elephant Island. To attempt to describe the scale of Antarctica is nearly ...

(Wikipedia) Despite the Antarctic winter Yelcho neared Elephant Island and on 30 August 1916 the 22 men on Elephant Island were rescued and Yelcho returned to Punta Arenas A networking reception ...

Never mind that it was an act of desperation. He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island and summon help. It was the best hope for saving himself and the 27 other men ...

For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located ...

One hundred years on, another Antarctic chef Gerard Baker, uncovers the extraordinary life led by Charles Green and his version of two years cooking for the men of the Endurance. One of the greatest ...

Mass elephant seal deaths have been reported in the Antarctic region after a high ... acknowledged the first avian influenza case on Bird Island in October 2023, (on the brown scuba population ...

[Reuters] Bird flu has made its way into fur and elephant seal populations for the first time on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, a team of scientists confirmed Thursday, setting off ...