Grytviken a historic abandoned Whaling Station is the only place on South Georgia Island where anyone lives. It was the main whaling station on the island established in 1904 and closed in 1965. There is an active British Research Station here along with a little church, small museum, post office, several old partially sunken whaling vessels and maze of rusting structures and wooden buildings previously used (now abandoned) in the processing of whale meat, blubber and whale oil. There are about 2 dozen people who work and live here on a temporary contract basis. Years after Sir Ernest Shackleton’s disastrous Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 he returned to South Georgia where he died of a heart attack while moored in the harbor and was buried Grytviken Cemetery.


https://billklipp.zenfolio.com/blog/2018/2/Antarctica-Wanderings-IV--South-Georgia-Island-2


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