By 1904, the first land-based whaling station at South Georgia was set up in Grytviken. Whaling became a major activity at the island -- from 1904 to 1965, about 175,250 whales were processed there.

The island seems marked in some unusual way ... was hauled ashore at South Georgia's Grytviken whaling station in 1912. The 1920s saw the introduction of factory whaling ships that could catch ...

An inside detail of the Whalers' Church, over a century old When the island of South Georgia was a booming whaling station, in the roaring forties, more than a century ago, Grytviken received what ...

Today Grytviken's former whaling station on South Georgia - the only ... awarded by the Dundee-based South Georgia Heritage Trust (SGHT) which runs the island's museum, will will serve as both ...

Today, South Georgia is known as one of sub-Antarctica’s most stunning beautiful and rugged islands, with a long ... to a group of scientists, based in Grytviken, who were undertaking vital ...

The wooden cross stood for almost 100 years at King Edward Point, South Georgia, near Grytviken ... of ocean before reaching the island of South Georgia. The last voyage Ernest Shackleton took ...

Shackleton died in 1922, aged 47, in Grytviken, South Georgia ... Heritage Trust (SGHT), the Government of South Georgia and ...

South Georgia, 1390 kilometers southeast of Malvinas, covers 3903 square kilometers. They had a whaling base called Grytviken on the largest of their islands, San Pedro Island, until 1965.