History and Heritage of South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands

The UK Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Island is home to tens of millions of seabirds and marine mammals, as well as diverse plant and invertebrate communities and marine ecosystems.
Located in the sub-Antarctic, the islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Island are of hemispheric importance as key breeding sites for wildlife that migrates across the entire Southern Ocean.
This film explores the human history of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, from the discovery of these islands, to the establishment of whaling stations on South Georgia which exploited the rich whale populations of the Southern Ocean.
Produced by the South Georgia Heritage Trust, in partnership with the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the British Overseas Territories.
For more information, please see: www.sght.org
Narrated by Stewart McPherson.

[@schlenbea]

Thank you for this video! I randomly stumbled across these old whaling stations just looking at remote places on Google maps and was fascinated by the immense structures and machinery littering the landscape, abandoned. I had to know more and that how I found this video!

[@divingindeepspace5429]

Im writing a book, and i needed a location for a secret enemy base. After watching your video i chose these beuatiful island, and the waling station as my base. Thank you

[@YasuEntertainement]

What is your book?

[@torsutton9641]

I'm telling everyone. No more secret😂

[@blitzkriegbop6666]

I have an entire book written, it was just missing a secret base, after reading your comment I chose this island. It's getting published tomorrow 😊

[@rosewood1]

Thankyou for this very informative film. The earth has few wild areas and the sea of the southern ocean and it's many islands must remain a wilderness. The animals need this and we need this. And our future grand children need this. Can you imagine what they would think if their cry is
once there were whales...

[@normanclatcher]

Star Trek IV.

[@kemaltalen9791]

I came here because I wanted to learn more about the South Georgia islands as they are written about in the novel Endurance by Alfred Lansing. This video is great and I thoroughly enjoyed learning about whaling. The bit on Shackleton was informative and bridges the novel to present day. Great work.

[@RezMNBall]

Right next to Falklands 😄

[@KenjiStarwolf]

awesome reporter! he was telling the right story but didnt judge the old man for beeing a whaler and listing carefully, such a good person!

[@OnlyThe1Son]

I was looking at a map and looked for some remote island and found this one and just decided to type it into You tube and see if anything came up LOL..
wow.. what an eye opener...

[@MankindFilm]

I’m developing a video game that’s set on Arctic island with an abandoned whaling outpost on it. It’s great learning the history of these outposts and it’s a treasure of info for adding legitimacy to my games storyline. Great video!

[@rapidthrash1964]

Do you need unity assets for this? I might have some that I made for a game (taking place on a fictional Alaskan island)?

[@MankindFilm]

@@rapidthrash1964 I think I’ve got everything I’ll need minus a programmer haha. I’m using unreal engine and I’ve based a huge area on this town. It’s looking good so far!

[@MrCrabbing]

Love to go there and see the place.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

Very interesting and we'll made program. I enjoyed learning from it. I currently am unable to Travel so you help this Old guy travel in my mind. Thanks for getting me out doors from my Sofa.😁

[@relativexistence505]

This is so interesting, thanks for making this awesome informative video on the south Atlantic’s history!

[@bepyn4ik]

Im petty sure that South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands are in the Antartic Ocean

[@Leke05]

I would go and never leave the island.

[@howdymartin6258]

Great video - thanks so much

[@dyliii]

great video!

[@mahtabahmed9898]

Very informative video

[@akacadian3714]

No mention of the S Georgia during the Falklands War?

[@electrominded8372]

It has tons of mammals, fish and birds to eat and plenty of freshwater, plus abandoned ships and buildings. Who is to say SG is inhospitable!?

[@normanclatcher]

Wimps.

[@EmbodiedRevenant]

[@treborretsnom6186]

Big block of ice

[@robertkelly3823]

I'm here cos of globle game😆🌍

[@lewiecooper3515]

How did he let his pals know what island his ship was wrecked on?

[@morestuff64058]

*Navigation* : Am I A joke to you?

[@jamesbuchanan7979]

🇦🇷

[@zigongosaurus5274]

Nice loser flag you got there

[@nathanderover6929]

Of course we haven't learned anything from the last century of whaling. Has anyone thought of the shareholders?

[@latiionlamusica8216]

Past mistakes?

[@TheEpicWeatherstar9000]

This better have sandwich as the ground!

[@JameyLeanneCooper]

Lord sandwich 😂

[@poetasintierra]

Whaling is a crime

[@user-ne7hc7pk1v]

Lol

[@jeriksson7686]

I hope people can let the animals live in peace!