The South Orkney Islands have been part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962, and prior to this the islands were a Falkland Islands Dependency. Under the 1959 Antarctic Treaty however ...

The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals at ...

They breed in at least 216 colonies at 50 sites, including southern Chile, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands, the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands, Bouvet ...

Published in the journal Polar Biology, a 40-year census from Signy Island in the remote South Orkney Islands and a 30-year census from Bird Island, close to the sub-Antarctic island of South ...