Grytviken Whaling Station Drone Footage - South Georgia Island (4K resolution) 

My father was there in his twentys he passed away last year at the age of ninty six he was a riviter and built the original whale oil tanks he sailed out of Grange mouth in Scotland signed on for twenty four months

Now especially after the 7.6 earthquake today!

It doesn't get as much love as the South Pacific, but there's a beauty there all its own, perhaps it better left that way

Hermosas las georgias del sur

@@alanmorton6180 Do you mean that he was one of the criminals who greedily contributed to the destruction of the oceans and living creatures?

I actually had the thought prior to reading your comment that was “I wonder if any couple has been married in that chapel.” Thanks for the confirmation, it truly is a wonderful world.

This is one of the comments that makes the internet truly fascinating. That's really cool.

WHAT A COOL PLACE TO GET MARRIED!

I looked around in this place in Google Earth and its Wonderful

Do the island residents attend the church for worship?

how do i visit or work on the island?

​@@Thegod__ have you learned about it?

submarines do not do logistics work and it would've been far much easier to have a research vessel to deliver cargo. That's excluding the question on why military and a nuclear submarine would even be down there in the first place.

@@HKNPRC Why wouldn't a Nuclear sub not be in the South Atlantic?

It's endlessly fascinating isn't it. Not to mention starkly beautiful.

@@mrb7094 absolutely!

@@mrb7094 Stark but not beautiful by any means or imagination. Damp and cold in the summer and unbearably cold in winter. Not for me.

@@OldDocSilver I get it Thad. I really do. If I had my way I'd live in the Bahamas, for most of the year, probably. But I also have a 'North of the Soul'. I reside in the North too and this scenery is not unfamiliar, to say the very least. I only have to look from my window. An accident of birth. But sweet are the uses of adversity, and when the winter wind blows, I shall smile and say 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors that feelingly persuade me what I am.'

how do i visit or work on the island?

I was in Shackleton House for about 5 months but alas it is gone. Had a great bar.

Y lo tienen estos soretes....que bronca

‘You’ can’t even organise your economy. You’re hardly in any position to claim them as ‘yours’

how many people live over there?

@@MuhammadShoaib-vs5ps Usually 18, and sometimes up to about 30, but only during their summer (January, February, March). Mostly scientists, but there's also a magistrate, a postmaster general, and the museum curator during that time.

how do i visit or work on the island?

how do i visit or work on the island?

I'm looking at cruises to Deception and beyond. It starts at £9,000 to share a 4 berth cabin.

Do you know if there are any ham radio operators working there now? If I visit, I'd love to have a go at broadcasting from there, if they'd let me. I'm currently at Introductory level. I plan to start Intermediate this year. I probably won't go there until 2026 at the earliest.

how do i visit or work on the island?

how do i visit or work on the island?

Yes the Puma wreck is still there - it is faintly visible in this video. It goes off screen (to the left) at about the 5:53 mark - it's well removed from the cemetery - from memory about a 30 minute walk maybe ?

@@DanielMcCurdyNZ Thanks, I was flying in a Gazelle so the distance seemed less to me. That was a long time ago and the video brought it all back to me. The church had a lean on in those days. Nice it is being preserved now.

Until the Argies arrive

Thank you ! No this was shot in Cinematic mode - flying at full speed, which is still very slow compared to Sports Mode. In Sports Mode the Mavic Air flies so fast that it goes beyond the limit of the gimbal to stabilise. In Sports Mode it would fly from the station to the survey base (along the road) in about 7 seconds. To be honest we spent most of our time doing aerial photography with the drone (in between scanning), so I didn't have too much time to play around with making nice videos. The wind was too high most of the time to be able to get stable footage, this was probably the most calm day we had and the winds picked up about an hour after this was taken. It was freezing cold during this flight too, so my fingers kept freezing up, hence the occasional jerking motion !! I'll have some really good scanning and drone videos up in a few weeks from South Georgia, Australia and USA :-)

Daniel I don’t know why on my mavic the cinematic mode it flies really slow...some questions: many buildings look to be in very good shape (like the church for example) there is people still living there? I though it was a ghost town or something, abandoned long ago.

Grytviken is the one station that has been "cleaned up' (asbestos removal, unsafe building removal etc...) so it serves as a cruise ship destination and many of the buildings are reused by either the government, British Antarctic Survey or South Georgia Heritage Trust. All the buildings on the right hand side of the station are the museum and related buildings. On the left are workshops and stores. The BAS base (at the end of the road) is lived in all year round by scientists and base staff. The Church is still used fairly regularly and is constantly maintained. Most buildings have had new roofs put on recently and most have been re-clad.

Google maps brought me here lol

The whale 🐳 brought me here 🤣

There is a British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken, (the red/white buildings on the other side of the harbour from the main station), which has a satellite uplink etc... It is very well equipped for the scientists that reside there.

how do i visit or work on the island?

Argentino? No es ingles

Malvinas es inglesa

@@luhenry1 bolsominion

Georgias del Sur. Territorio argentino de ultramar 🇦🇷

@@luciano2003. Argentina is bad, UK is best

Não é Argentina e sim inglesa

@@Thegod__ Nao inglesa, sim argentina

@@ivangruer5326 nao argentina, sim inglesa, oficialmente reconhecido.

how do i visit or work on the island?

Same, i was just looking at random places and thought how lovely these islands looked

same

Same, hunting for waves

I was reading a blog post about the British plans to recapture the Falkland Islands in mid-1982, and how the capture of South Georgia was planned first - so I checked Google Maps to get an overview of the island.

how do i visit or work on the island?

Hi Luke - those are clumps of seaweed. They look weird from above, because you can see them descending down to the sea floor ! At some of the stations the seaweed forests are so thick they can make landing at the beaches problematic.

@@DanielMcCurdyNZ Wow thank you so much for the info. You so right, it looks peculiar from up above. Had no idea it's seaweed thank you Daniel

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Most of the remaining buildings at Grytviken are maintained, for use as a museum, storage, workshop etc... The church was in the process of having some of the rotted timber in the windows replaced at the time of this flight. During the summer months it's actually surprisingly busy at Grytviken!

Because they are maintained! The church was restored 20 years ago and is used for carol services and weddings. The red-roofed building is the museum.

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@@DanielMcCurdyNZhow do i visit or work on the island?

Hi Sòlene. Thanks for your comment - if you'd like to email, I can get you in touch with the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, as they have control over the use (and resuse) of the footage. Go to www.geometria.co.nz and find my email under Daniel McCurdy, flick me an email and I'll get the ball rolling for you. Cheers, Dan

how do i visit or work on the island?

how do i visit or work on the island?

@@Thegod__ Join the Army.

how do i visit or work on the island?

@@Thegod__ Join the Army.

Was there and did everything that you said.......

Yes you need a permit to fly a drone anywhere on or near the islands, partly since there is a very real risk of impacting bird populations. All of our work was undertaken with and for GSGSSI, with guidance from experts on the islands. I would generally say don't take a drone with you, but I don't speak for the GSGSSI, so maybe get in touch with them directly.

how do i visit or work on the island?

Haha - yes one of them is me :-) Good spotting !

What time stamp?

how do i visit or work on the island?

how do i visit or work on the island?

Haha thanks Dave. Actually there's a crashed Argentinian Puma helicopter in the distance, (a white blob really) appearing in frame on screen at 5:30 until 5:53. I think I have a specific video of that helicopter crash site, so I will upload that at some point for you :-).

I think you can probably only make it out in 4K resolution - it's just a blur in 1080p.

I was stationed on South Georgia for 4 months in 1991. They were just renovating the musuem then. I have a pic stood next to that downed argentinian helicopter.

how do i visit or work on the island?

Yeah, old pots that you can see some outside museum. The ones you see are tanks for storing oil from the whales and seals blubber that were in operation until 1965.

A nova casa de força foi inaugurada em 2009 e atende aos serviços e residentes em Grytviken. A área onde estão os alojamentos não aparece no vídeo.