Shackleton made the trip to the island in just three weeks. “Usually the icebergs take a bit longer (he had sails),” he said. A map of South Georgia and Sandwich Islands: Eventually ...

Port Louis was established by Louis de Bougainville in 1764 as the first French settlement on the islands. On March 25th the Princess Royal will travel to Grytviken, South Georgia, on MV Pharos ...

The playing field, at Grytviken, the largest settlement of South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic, is billed as the most southerly in the world, some 2,476 miles from the South Pole ...

and $148 million—by defamed Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the former mayor has apparently come to a settlement. “I have reached a resolution of the litigation with the ...

The largest island is referred to as the Mainland, though the Vikings knew it as Hrossey. Orkney is full of Norse names, and every map is a poem ... by causeways—South Ronaldsay, Burray ...

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Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Jacksonville and its surrounding areas are deeply rooted in rich Black history, leaving a lasting impact on the world we know today.

They may have originated on the Indian subcontinent and adapted to human settlements millennia ... targeting larger and larger islands. At 1,500 square miles, South Georgia, near Antarctica ...

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

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