South Georgia and the Southern Ocean

During that time, I ran a post office (discovering the philatelic world to be extremely complicated and at times demanding), learnt how to drive jet boats and rigid inflatable boats through ice, with seals and penguins popping up around the boats, ordered and managed the station's food supply (no mean feat to order dry food and frozen for a year for an unknown number of people with unknown eating habits), rationed the crisp and chocolate supply (Oh, the stress!) and explored some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth on foot and by sea. South Georgia For those that don't know, South Georgia (as opposed to the American state of Georgia or the country near Russia called Georgia) is a small island in the middle of nowhere ( figure 8 ), famous for being the place where the Falklands War started and where the whaling industry brought the Southern Ocean's whale population to near extinction.