Grytviken (/ˈɡrɪtviːkən/ GRIT-vee-kən Norwegian: [ˈɡɾŷːtviːkn̩]) is a hamlet on South Georgia in the South Atlantic and formerly a whaling station and...

first permanent habitation at Grytviken in 1904. It operated through his Argentine Fishing Company, which settled in Grytviken. The station operated until...

and Grytviken have a tundra climate (Köppen ET) with long, cold winters and short, cool summers. The highest temperature ever recorded at Grytviken/King...

Norwegian Lutheran Church (until 2013), and casually as the Grytviken Church, is a church in Grytviken, South Georgia, built in 1913. The church was part of...

most important historically being Grytviken. The main settlement and the capital today is King Edward Point near Grytviken, a British Antarctic Survey research...

The invasion of South Georgia, also known as the Battle of Grytviken or Operation Georgias, took place on 3 April 1982, when Argentine Navy forces seized...

The South Georgia Museum is situated in Grytviken, near the administrative centre of the UK overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich...

Fe was ordered to ferry a party of Argentine marines and supplies to Grytviken, in South Georgia. The island of South Georgia is situated 784 NM southeast...

interests with the Compañía Argentina de Pesca which had started whaling at Grytviken since December 1904 was settled by the British authorities with the company...

Georgia. At his wife's request, he remained on the island and was buried in Grytviken cemetery. The wreck of Endurance was discovered just over a century after...

Kerguelen and the Norwegian Lutheran Church, a former Lutheran chapel in Grytviken, South Georgia (since 1913). After years of abandonment and weathering...

for the Museum curator's family at Grytviken. The jetty, the church, dwellings and industrial buildings at Grytviken have recently been renovated by the...

across Cumberland East Bay and set up an OP at Brown Mountain overlooking Grytviken. The SAS plan was more ambitious, and called for a helicopter insertion...

polar region was a Norwegian girl, Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, born in Grytviken on 8 October 1913. Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born south...

While the British Magistrate and other civilians and military present in Grytviken were removed from South Georgia during the Argentine occupation of South...

their young. After serving as a sealing vessel Petrel was beached in Grytviken, South Georgia. According to Robert Headland's "Island of South Georgia"...

the first person born and raised south of the Antarctic Convergence, in Grytviken, South Georgia in 1913. Her father, Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874–1953), settled...

interviews, that he in fact had never said this. During the two-hour Battle of Grytviken on 3 April 1982, Lieutenant Mills' detachment of 22 Royal Marines inflicted...

Cook. In the Second World War the whaling stations were closed except Grytviken and Leith Harbour. Most of the British and Norwegian whalers and factory...

elements of the forces which captured the main Argentine positions in Grytviken. This action resulted in the surrender of Argentinian garrison occupying...

Machine. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. "Population of Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands". Population.mongabay.com...

Cape Town and then on to the ice. Shackleton decided to sail directly to Grytviken harbour in South Georgia. Equipment and stores that had been sent on to...

Falkland Islands Dependencies with a permanent local administration in Grytviken established in 1909. Fridtjof Nansen Land (Franz Josef Land), now part...

call, the whaling station at Grytviken on the island of South Georgia, where she arrived on 5 November. She left Grytviken on 5 December 1914, heading...

unprofitable, and are now abandoned. These settlements include: Whaler's Bay Grytviken Husvik Leith Harbour Ocean Harbour Prince Olav Harbour Stromness Aghdam...

before Christmas arriving at Grytviken on 22 December. She sailed along the coast of South Georgia and returned to Grytviken on Christmas Eve. On Christmas...

trekked over South Georgia to raise the alarm at the whaling station Grytviken. In 1946, US Navy Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and more than 4,700 military...

Marsh foxtail 1968 Grytviken Artemisia sp Mugwort 1967 Grytviken Avena fatua Wild-oat 1961 Grytviken Brassica cf. napus Rape 1961 Grytviken Carum carvi Caraway...

flensing became more specialized. Soon the entire whale was being used. At Grytviken, a whaling station at South Georgia, after the blubber had been stripped...

South Georgia: Cumberland Bay; Thatcher Peninsula with King Edward Cove (Grytviken) in the lower center; Allardyce Range with the summit Mt. Paget in the...