Tag: South Sandwich Islands

• Tuesday, December 9th 2025 - 22:25 UTC

  Killer sea sponge in deep Antarctic waters traps and devours live species

  

  A team from The Nippon Foundation’s Nekton Ocean Census worked with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ship Falkor to reach far beneath Antarctic waters, where they found/discovered and recovered, with the help of a robot submarine, a raft of sea bed species

• Thursday, June 27th 2024 - 22:45 UTC

  Visitor Related Fee Increases For South Georgia South Sandwich Islands

  

  The Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, GSGSSI, has published the fees and charges for the 24/25 austral summer season, which will take effect from July first 2024.

• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 13:30 UTC

  South Georgia: Darwin Plus Funding for Environment Schemes, 2024

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is proud to promote and encourage science that contributes to developing and upholding best-practice environmental management and that supports the active management and good governance of the Territory.

• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 09:26 UTC

  South Georgia inviting proposals for a Commemorative Coins mint

  

  The Commissioner of the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands has been invited to submit proposals to act as the SGSSI Government’s Mint for the production of commemorative coins.

• Wednesday, July 6th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands designated landmass Protected Areas

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) announced on Tuesday the designation of the entire landmass of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) as Specially Protected Areas, fulfilling the commitment it made in the “Pathway to Protection”

• Saturday, June 18th 2022 - 11:18 UTC

  1982: Falklands' Task Force removes Argentine base from South Sandwich islands

  

  Having recovered South Georgia at the end of April and defeated the Argentine forces in the Falklands marking Liberation of the Islands on June 14, the Task Force still had another job, this time in the South Sandwich Islands.

• Thursday, March 24th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  South Georgia appoints new Director of Operations; Steve Winn has a long maritime experience

  

  Following a highly competitive recruitment process, the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, GSGSSI announced the appointment of Steve Winn as our new Director of Operations.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  South Sandwich hidden magnitude-8.2 earthquake source of mysterious 2021 global tsunami

  

  By American Geophysical Union – Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe. In August 2021, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit near the South Sandwich Islands, creating a tsunami that rippled around the globe. The epicenter was 47 kilometers below the Earth's surface—too deep to initiate a tsunami—and the rupture was nearly 400 kilometers long, which should have generated a much larger earthquake.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Research and Monitoring Plan for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area

  

  A new Research and Monitoring Plan has been launched to help support the management of the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area, MPA. The announcement was done in the January edition of the Sough Georgia Newsletter.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  HMS Protector breaks polar record and involved in scientific research on penguins and climate change

  

  Icebreaker HMS Protector has broken a record, becoming the first Royal Navy ship to enter both polar circles within the same year. The Navy's only icebreaker, Protector left Plymouth in August for Antarctica, – her first visit to the frozen continent since 2019.