Documentary 'Endurance' reveals discovery of Shackleton's shipwreck after 107 years
After 107 years beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance, has been ...
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Ice and Isolation: The Discovery and Exploration of South Georgia
South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized world and trapped in the most cruel of climates, but it was destined for discovery. From its first recorded sightings more than 300 years ago ...
How Jimmy Carter Set the Stage for Atlanta to Become the 'Hollywood of the South'
An idea from former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter helped spawn the Peach State's $4.4 billion entertainment industry, largely ...
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Resurrection Island
This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...
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Escape from Antarctica
Seventeen days later, after enduring almost unceasing gales and even a hurricane, they landed their 22-foot boat, the James Caird, on the remote but inhabited island of South Georgia. That they ...
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Rats driven from South Georgia's wildlife paradise
They have gone, or so it seems. The biggest rat eradication programme ever undertaken appears to have rid South Georgia island in the South Atlantic of its pest problem. A survey of the British ...