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Savage South Georgia

The remote island may be inhospitable to humans, but it provides a home to major populations of wildlife.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Kasha Patel.

Published March 4, 2019
Data acquired December 25, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Space Shuttle > SRTM