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This bar, located at the Beach House resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, has been ranked the No. 3 beach bar in the ...
Today, the largest southern elephant seal populations are found on subantarctic islands, including South Georgia, Macquarie Island and the Falkland Islands. These colonies act as global strongholds ...
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Some slabs of ice are breaking off like floating cities, with the largest fragment — A23c — drifting southward, measuring 130 km². Penguins, Seals and the Island Under Pressure South Georgia is home ...
The first known cases of bird flu were detected among the brown skuas on Bird Island, just off South Georgia. Subsequently, a dramatic increase in mortality was observed among elephant seals. As the ...
Having spread around the world since 2021, HPAI (H5N1) was detected in seabirds and marine mammals in South Georgia, southeast of South America, in October 2023.
A dynamic evolutionary history Today, the largest southern elephant seal populations are found on subantarctic islands, including South Georgia, Macquarie Island and the Falkland Islands.
Technically, the hundred-mile-long, 20 mile-wide British overseas territory of South Georgia is uninhabited. Only a few visiting scientists and government fisheries inspectors occupy the island ...
A23a - the world’s largest and oldest iceberg - has run aground on the continental shelf near the island of South Georgia, scientists say. The “megaberg” – which is twice the size of ...
The colossal iceberg A23a, seen here in 2023, appears to have run aground on the continental shelf surrounding South Georgia, a remote British territory home to an abundance of wildlife. (T ...
A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.
Several million penguins including macaroni, chinstrap, gentoo and king penguins call South Georgia home. As do several species of albatross, elephant seals and fur seals.