Ultimate Adventure Bucket List: Big-mountain skier Chris Davenport's dream trip is ski South Georgia Island. See all our Adventure Bucket List trips. By Kate Siber. October 19, 2011 ...

South Georgia Island, isolated in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is an unforgiving place, but it's been a holy grail for large seabird colonies, as well as famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Say hello to thousands of king penguins on a two-week photography expedition to South Georgia Island, known as the Serengeti of the southern Atlantic because of its bountiful wildlife.

On South Georgia, freedom comes at the expense of comfort and safety. British explorer Captain James Cook, who was the first to sail around the island in 1775, called it “a land doomed to ...

That is, the trip had been nothing but challenges and excitement. ... 13-day sea kayak circumnavigation of South Georgia Island with a hardy four-man crew of Aussies, average age: 52.

South Georgia is inextricably associated with the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. It was here that he died, 100 years ago last January, but he made his most famous visit to the island in ...