Settlement secures biologically meaningful foraging areas for African Penguins for next decade to help bring the species back from the brink of extinction. BirdLife South Africa and SANCCOB today ...

The agreement establishes critical island closures to protect South Africa’s penguin populations at six locations around breeding colonies at Dassen Island, Robben Island, Stony Point ...

The U.S. State Department on Sunday ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates because of fighting in the north. The travel advisory issued on ...

Scientists have used ancient DNA to help reconstruct 6,000 years of penguin history at the South Pole. The researchers found that Adélie penguins had taken over the habitat of southern elephant ...

The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...

After nearly 40 years at sea, the world's largest iceberg has run aground on the remote British overseas territory of South Georgia, one of the biologically rich habitats on Earth home to millions of ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank more ... ice and then in boats to the British overseas territory of South Georgia, some 1 400 kilometres east of the Falklands.

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It was Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ambition to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Sea. The Ross Sea Party which was landed at Hut Point ...

The government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands have released a new coin to commemorate the birth of the famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Born on 15th February 1874, Sir Ernest ...