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A pregnant female fur seal gets unsettled as the onset of birth comes on. The pup is born easily and this experienced Mum quickly bonds and encourages the new born to suckle.
Fur seal giving birth
Take a helicopter flight through the glacial interior of the island, over windy Royal Bay to the SGHT field camp at Cape Charlotte, then home again over the Barff Peninsula, past the front of the Nordenskjold Glacier back to Grytviken. This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter from the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia on www.sgisland.gs
A helicopter flight over South Georgia
The penguin chicks and seal pups are moulting into adult pelts and plumage, but still show a distinct curiosity for everything around them. See the fur seal pups playing and the gentoo chicks come up to peck at boots and the rucksack of people who sat near thier roost.This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter from the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia on www.sgisland.gs
Curious young animals
The final baiting phase of the SGHT Habitat Restoration (rat eradication) Project has started. Helicopters are aerially spreading bait. See a rat take the bait at night. This video is attached to the GSGSSI monthly website newsletter on www.sgisland.gs
Baiting begins to remove the last rats on South Georgia
More than thirty skuas take a bath and dry off on the shores of a hilltop lake above Carlita on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. These birds are top of the food chain and have solitary nests, but aggregate in large numbers at fresh water, as seen here. This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter on www.sgisland.gs
Skua Bath
A memorial service to honour the memory ad celebrate the courage of the Leader and Members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was held in the church at Grytviken November 2014. It was attended by several relatives and descendants of the original Endurance crew and expedition members. This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter on www.sgisland.gs
Memorial Ceremony for the Leader and Members of the Endurance Expedition
The Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Colin Roberts, led a ceremony of remembrance aboard the old whale catcher Dias. This vessel was originally a Hull steam trawler and had a very active role as a minesweeper in WW1.
Dias - Viola Memorial Ceremony 2014
The tall ship Phoenix represented Endurance sailing exactly 100 years after Shackleton and his men set sail from Plymouth on the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition.
Re-enactment of Endurance sailing from Plymouth
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
Discovery House Officially Open for Visiting Scientists
The endemic South Georgia Pipit cannot live where rats are present. At the end of December 2013 pipits were seen in Hercules Bay and at Salisbury Plain, which were only recently baited to remove rats as part of Phase 2 of the South Georgia Heritage Trust Habitat Restoration Project. This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter on the Government of South Georgia website www.sgisland.gs
South Georgia Pipits in the rat cleared northern area of the island of South Georgia.
Why you should not throw sand, even if you are an elephant seal! A king penguin gets a face full of sand when walking through a beach crowded with elephant seals. The seals throw damp sand over their back in an attempt to cool down. This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter from the Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
Don't Throw Sand
A new snowfall makes for fun. A snow woman, called Snow Sue is constructed to star on the South Georgia webcam. Timelapse photography catches the snow artists as they make a rather well endowed snow lady, then set about each other in snowball fight...oh, and where is the real Sue?This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter fro the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia on www.sgisland.gs The webcam can be found at http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/%28h%29South_Georgia_webcam?useskin=
Fun and games making a snow woman
Elephant seal bulls vie for position on the beach in an early spring blizzard on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Soon 200 females will be up on this beach to pup and then dominant males will be rewarded with the mating rights, but for now they need to warn any newcomers away from their patch. This video is attached to the monthly website newsletter from South Georgia on www.sgisland.gs
Elephant Seal Bulls in a Blizzard
A curious Leopard Seal swims just off the beach at King Edward Point on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. The seal is filmed thrusting itself out of the water, and from underwater where it comes right up to the camera. Underwater footage of this animal, that can be dangerous to humans, has shot using a camera on a long stick. The colour in the water is a reflection from the hull of a ship. This footage is attached to the monthly website newsletter on www.sgisland.gs
A Curious Leopard Seal, including underwater footage
Going ashore in Zodiacs to visit the King Penguin colony at Fortuna Bay from a cruise ship. In April some King Penguins are displaying and others have largish chicks. After a coule of hours ashore the tourists go back to the boats to return to the ship. This videoclip is attached to the monthly website newsletter from the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia on www.sgisland.gs
A trip to Fortuna Bay King Penguin colony from a cruise ship.
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