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Breaking News: Plancius stuck at South Georgia

Plancius Polar Exploration Ship stuck at South Georgia www.AntarcticGuide.com April 13th 2012 SOME 70 tourists are stranded on board a Dutch polar exploration ship at South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic after the ship experienced a partial engine failure, its owner said today. The Plancius was lying under anchor off a pier in a […]

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South Georgia’s rat eradication

South Georgia Rat Eradication Rats on the run: plans for largest massacre ever By Clive Cookson The eradication campaign aims to restore the population of South Georgia’s ground-nesting birds The largest rodent eradication campaign in history is set to poison millions of rats on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Scientists say the mammalian massacre […]

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