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 ...

South Georgia Island is to the northwest of the South ... their shroud of fog thanks to their elevation and constant snow and ice fields. Vortices in clouds caused by the volcanoes of the South ...

Sailors from HMS Argyll followed in the footsteps of Britain’s greatest polar explorer when they recreated Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary trek across the snow and ice of South Georgia ...

A magnetic observatory is being re-established on South Georgia ... Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha and St Helena observatories currently provide monitoring of the magnetic field and its ...

As this energy makes it to the earth, it disturbs the magnetic field ... However, the Space Weather Prediction Center shows the "visibility line" as far south as Georgia and Alabama.

The biggest rat eradication programme ever undertaken appears to have rid South Georgia island in the South Atlantic ... also lauded those who worked in the field. In addition, she thanked the ...

That they survived such a long voyage despite stormy weather and ferocious seas in a small boat is remarkable enough. That they successfully navigated to tiny South Georgia Island is a testament ...

Hundreds of skiers and boarders were left trapped at the top of the Remarkables skifield following forced road closures due ...

The seven people killed Saturday in a gangway collapse on a Georgia barrier island ... An estimated 700 people were on Sapelo Island, about 72 miles south of Savannah, to celebrate the Gullah ...

From agriculture to racial relations and politics, the Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893 had far-reaching impacts.