Follow Ernest Shackleton’s Legendary Trek on Google Street View [Slide Show]

Google sent a videographer on the route of the explorer’s epic adventure

Eric Wehrmeister, videographer with Lindblad Expeditions, documented large colonies of king penguins that reside on South Georgia Island. Kings are the brightest of all penguin species except as juveniles, when they are covered in a thick brown down coat... Credit: Lindblad Expeditions
Prion Island only sees about 2,500 human visitors a year but many more elephant and fur seals, who come primarily to breed in this sheltered spot off South Georgia’s northeast coast. Scientists are wondering whether the presence of seals might discourage some of the island’s bird species such as wandering albatross and blue petrels from nesting nearby... Credit: Lindblad Expeditions
South Georgia’s 30 million breeding birds vastly outnumber its human occupants—a handful of government officers, museum staff and researchers with the British Antarctic Survey. Credit: Lindblad Expeditions
King penguins and elephant seals share the beach at Right Whale Bay in South Georgia, named for the right whales which were hunted extensively here from the 17th to 19th centuries. Right whales provide large amounts of oil and baleen as compared with other species and—handy for whalers—their thick blubber makes them float once killed... Credit: Lindblad Expeditions
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Through the Trekker Loan Program scientists, nonprofits and universities can borrow Google’s backcountry camera and photograph areas of the world that are unreachable by car. The Grand Canyon was the testing ground for this technology, and the first natural wonder it imaged... Credit: Lindblad Expeditions
Ernest Shackleton died near South Georgia and was buried at this grave site in Grytviken. He published an account of his ill-fated expedition on the ship called Endurance and his trek across land and sea to save his crew... Credit: Lindblad Expeditions

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