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Bird flu has been found in elephant and fur seals near Antarctica in what are the region’s first cases of infected mammals. The UK’s Animal Plant Health Agency (Apha) said it has been testing for the H5N1 virus on the island of South Georgia since ...

11 Jan 2024 at 00:01

Cross erected in memory of explorer Shackleton to travel 7,000 miles to Scotland

A memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will travel more than 7,000 thousand miles to Dundee to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth. The wooden cross from Shackleton’s Hope Point memorial will soon be on display at Discovery ...

20 May 2024 at 07:21

Iceberg twice the size of Greater London runs aground near South Georgia

The world’s largest and oldest iceberg has run aground near the island of South Georgia, scientists say. The nearly one-trillion-tonne block of ice, known as A23a, has come to rest on the continental shelf of the British overseas territory in ...

05 Mar 2025 at 10:15

Snow, sun, business as usual: How scientists in Antarctica spend Christmas Day

Guaranteed snow and a Christmas Day when the sun never sets would be on many people’s wishlists. And on the frozen, isolated continent of Antarctica, that is what the nearly 300 people working for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will get ...

09 Dec 2024 at 00:01

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Memories of whaling industry collected for archive

Archivists are creating a “digital time capsule” to tell the story of Scots involved in whaling and are inviting contributions from those who worked in the industry. The Whalers’ Memory Bank project has been launched to compile photographs ...

21 Jun 2024 at 00:01

Restoration team work to save remote ‘Shackleton Villa’ in South Georgia

A team of carpenters are working to restore the remote wooden villa where Sir Ernest Shackleton planned a heroic rescue of his crew, who were stranded after their ship sank in the Antarctic. Shackleton, one of Britain’s most renowned ...

01 Jan 2026 at 00:01

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