The South Orkney Islands lie roughly 650km north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula and 1250km south-east of South America. A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British ...

It is near the South Orkney Islands, which is located approximately 375 miles northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Each day, the iceberg rotates about 15 degrees. "It's basically just sitting ...

The red star indicates the position of South Orkney during the late Eocene (37 million years ago). The blue regions indicate where Antarctica may have had land ice at the time. The grey and light ...

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 ...

Getting your share of airline commissionsFollowing the commission cuts starting in the 90s, each major airline has entered into confidential, bilateral agreements with... A refresher on river ...

His footage, captured off Hoxa Head in South Ronaldsay, Orkney, caught the pod teach a calf how to catch seabirds. Mr Campbell told BBC Scotland: "It was an amazing afternoon watching this pod of ...

the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands, Bouvet Island, the Prince Edward and Marion islands, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, the Heard and McDonald Islands, and very locally on the ...

Stoats are small, carnivorous mammals that were first recorded in Orkney in 2010. A 2017-2019 survey of wading birds in Orkney revealed that the number of curlews in the isles had declined by more ...