Tag: Grytviken Church

• Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 - 08:18 UTC

  The Grytviken Church in South Georgia will celebrate 110 years this Christmas

  

  When the island of South Georgia was a booming whaling station, in the roaring forties, more than a century ago, Grytviken received what was to be the first church established in the Antarctic region. In effect the church was completed in 1913 just on time for the Christmas Day with the first ever ringing of bells occurring on Christmas Eve.

• Saturday, May 24th 2014 - 09:25 UTC

  South Georgia releases three new coins: one of them to honor Prince George

  

  Three new South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands government coin designs have been released in recent months. The birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Cambridge is marked by the release of a coin dated 2013, which is based on a coin originally released the previous year.

• Friday, April 11th 2014 - 12:19 UTC

  Coins to celebrate South Georgia's Grytviken Church centenary

  

  The Treasury of South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands have issued a new crown which celebrates the centennial of one of the Island group’s most well-known and recognized landmarks: the Grytviken Church.