South Georgia Island

South Atlantic Ocean · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Photo: European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
November to March
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A mountainous, glacier-clad subantarctic island where vast king penguin and elephant seal colonies gather on the beaches. Ernest Shackleton is buried at the former whaling station of Grytviken.

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