South Georgia Island News

19/04/2024

A great time to help South Georgia's wildlife recovery...

Support South Georgia through the Big Give Green Match Fund

Today marks the launch of the South Georgia Heritage Trust’s Green Match Fund campaign. Over the next week, until midday on 25th April, you can donate via our Green Match Fund campaign to support our work and have your gift matched. So, for one week only you can make one donation and have twice the impact at South Georgia and for its wildlife!

Your donation will help fund priority conservation and research projects at South Georgia as well as our outreach and communications work telling South Georgia’s inspirational story.

With your help today and this week we can reach (and hopefully surpass) our target of £20,000.

Please follow the link below or in our bio to make a donation to SGHT.
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002SEVdzAAH

Big Give

11/04/2024

Congratulations to Ian Hart

The South Georgia Association is delighted to announce the award of the Morag Husband Campbell medal for 2024 to Ian Hart, in recognition of his “outstanding and sustained support for the history, heritage and knowledge of South Georgia” The Medal has been made possible by a generous bequest fro...

20/03/2024

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The Cemeteries and Burial Sites of South Georgia A record of cemeteries, burial sites, memorials, and the people who lie on the island. South Georgia The Island of South Georgia lies at the Southern extreme of the South Atlantic Ocean, on the edge of the cold Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica...

12/03/2024

Sad news of the spread of bird flu to penguins and albatross on South Georgia.

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Penguins and albatrosses are amongst the animals now confirmed to have tested positive for Avian Flu on South Georgia. Samples taken in February 2024 from a Gentoo Penguin and a King Penguin colony on the island confirmed the presence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.

Find out more: https://sght.org/news/avian-influenza-confirmed-in-penguin-and-albatross-populations-on-south-georgia/

26/10/2023

Sadly avian influenza has reached South Georgia....

South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Stunningly beautiful and rugged, this island wildlife sanctuary, once visited, is not easily forgotten. Its snow covered peaks, blue glacier ice and emerald green bays are breathtaking sights.

03/10/2023

Great object from the SG Museum

06/09/2023

The GSGSSI Annual Report for 2022has been published on their website. It is readable attractive and relatively short so is worth finding at the link below:

08/07/2023

A bargain for 2 wanting to visit South Georgia and the Antarctic....a three week trip. Wow!

A wonderful 21-day adventure voyage to South Georgia, Antarctica and the Falklands is one of our premium lots on offer through our online charity auction. The trip for two sharing departs 22/23 Oct 2023.
We are hugely grateful to G Adventures for their support by donating this wonderful trip of a lifetime.
Find out all the details on our charity auction:
https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/antarcticasouthgeorgiacharityauction

Image: G Adventures


UK Antarctic Heritage Trust G Adventures
http://www.gadventures.com

08/07/2023

What a fantastic selection of lots....do take a look!

Our charity auction has opened!
https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/antarcticasouthgeorgiacharityauction
Browse, explore and bid on an item to help support our conservation programmes in Antarctica and South Georgia. There is a huge variety of exclusive lots, one-off experiences, collectibles and so much more.


UK Antarctic Heritage Trust

16/06/2023

This is great for discovering more of South Georgia's history.

31/05/2023

From tiny to mighty , join our upcoming MPA Review Science Symposium on 13-14 June 2023 where a wide range of researchers will showcase how their work supports the management of our Marine Protected Area

For further information and to book your place, check our Eventbrite page: bit.ly/45F2EBh

27/05/2023

19/05/2023

Job opportunity in SG

Be one of the very lucky few to experience living and working on the beautiful South Georgia as a Civil Engineering and Capital Works Project Manger!

More here 👉 https://www.gov.gs/governance/appointments/

Closing date for applications: Monday 22nd May

18/05/2023

Stunning but rather strange needlecraft representing whaling at Leith Harbour.

14/05/2023

An interesting day in Scotland for those interested in Sir Ernest Shackleton.

This May, RSGS is offering a rare insight into the life and adventures of famed explorer Ernest Shackleton, told through a series of tours around the Fair Maid’s House in Perth.

12/05/2023

Stunning window features SG crest.

07/05/2023

Amazing footage of Southern Right Whales

01/04/2023

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31/03/2023

Interesting population interchanges for humpbacks in the South Atlantic.

Read our new paper! 🐋

Humpback whales make long migrations between feeding areas and breeding territories. But most stay within the boundaries of their known Stocks. In our newest open access publication in Scientific Reports, we report on the interchange of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales between Brazil and SouthAfrica. We queried a global database of 69,997 individually distinct humpback whales identified with photographs of their flukes. Of 6,982 humpback whales identified in both locations, six whales were photographed in Brazil and South Africa. Four whales originally photographed off Abrolhos Bank, Brazil were photographed off the Western Cape, South Africa (feeding grounds for B2). Two whales originally photographed off the Western Cape were photographed off Brazil, one traveling to the Eastern Cape in the Southwestern Indian Ocean (a migration corridor for C1) before migrating westward to Brazil. Our findings confirm interchange of humpback whales across the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the importance of international collaboration to understand population boundaries. They also highlight the strength of international collaborations towards better understanding the boundaries of marine megafauna populations. If you’d like to read the article for yourself, click the link on Facebook or you can search the link here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31358-5

17/03/2023

St Andrews Bay, South Georgia

“This place blows my mind every time again. Probably it was first sighted by the British expedition lead by captain Cook which explored the north coast of South Georgia in 1775.

Today when we visit this place we mostly come for the immense sized rookery of king penguins. Well over 300.000 king penguins can be found here and it’s one’s of nature’s greatest spectacles! Close to 500.000 animals are here together sharing a 2 miles beach! Penguins, fur seals and great numbers of elephant seals!

Every time it’s a privilege to come here!”

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09/03/2023

Discovering the Endurance RSGS hosts a special event with the team from the Endurance22 Expedition, which discovered Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance.

09/03/2023

As the southern tourist season nears its end, we celebrate our super 2022-23 team on South Georgia.