WAP is proud to show an envelope posted directly from South Georgia, by Dr. Volker Strecke DL8JDX on the last of his cruise to Antarctica.
The South Georgia Museum is located in the old whaling Station of Grytviken (WAP GBR-29). The building was once the whaling manager’s home and office.
The museum was established by Nigel Bonner in 1991 as a whaling museum. Its scope now embraces all the main areas of island’s history, including most aspects of South Georgia’s human heritage and natural history.
Exhibits include discovery, exploration, Shackleton, surveying and mountaineering expeditions, sealing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the early days of whaling, techniques of modern whaling in the middle part of the 20th century, whalers’ social life, maritime history, and natural history. Displays also cover the 1982 conflict and subsequent British military presence until 2001.
GSGSSI has responsibility for the operational buildings and infra-structure associated with the museum. The South Georgia Heritage Trust took over the management of the museum in July 2006.
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Get more at: South Georgia Museum – Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands