Stromness

Abandoned Whaling Station Of South Georgia

The island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic is remote, to say the least - they are 1,390 kilometers (864 miles) east-southeast of the Falkland Islands, considered the ends of the earth by many themselves.
There is no air strip and visitors must arrive on the island by boat. On the northern coast of the island is the former whaling station of Stromness, named for a village in the Scottish Orkney isles. The last time the place was used commercially was in the early 1960s. Now it's left to decay, its only company the seals and penguins native to the islands.