South Georgia is a remote, mountainous island in the far South Atlantic, about 1,400 kilometres east of the Falkland Islands. Glaciers cover much of it, and it lies just north of the cold Antarctic waters, so it is usually visited on voyages to Antarctica. Its beaches hold some of the largest gatherings of wildlife on the planet.
Hundreds of thousands of king penguins nest here, together with elephant seals, fur seals and huge numbers of seabirds, including the wandering albatross. The explorer Ernest Shackleton crossed the island's mountains on foot in 1916 to save his crew, and he is buried at the old whaling station of Grytviken.
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