by Audrey Benedict | Jun 3, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia) The total harvest of marine mammals around South Georgia represents a slaughter which has never been matched around the world. The whaling stations built by the Norwegian and British whaling industry were large-scale...
by Audrey Benedict | Jun 2, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust When you first visit Grytviken you are, quite simply, stunned into silence. In November of 1904 the Norwegian, C. A. Larsen, with experience whaling in Arctic waters, established the first whaling enterprise on South Georgia at Grytviken....
by Audrey Benedict | Jun 1, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #56: Antarctic Fur Seals (South Georgia) When British explorer Captain James Cook visited South Georgia in 1775, he noted the island’s abundant population of both Antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals. In 1788, some 13 years after Cook’s visit,...
by Audrey Benedict | May 29, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #55: Leopards! (South Georgia) Spotting this young leopard seal asleep on the beach was a surprise, the cold gleam of the South Georgia sun turning its fur to burnished silver. Despite my efforts to quietly find a place to sit down and simply watch, I...
by Audrey Benedict | May 28, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #54: Elephantastic Pups! (South Georgia) Imagine for a moment that you have been at sea for several months and that you are returning to South Georgia in late August (early spring) to give birth to a pup you have been nurturing in your womb for 11 months....
