The reindeermeat will be taken to the Falkland Islands for sale, as South Georgia has no permanent population and is only visited by scientists and government officers.
As soon as we walked in, our host, Ellen-Anna Siri, welcomed us with an enormous dish of stew - of reindeermeat, of course - and exactly what we needed.
They depend on caribou (a kind of large reindeer) meat for their existence and are worried that the herd they hunt as it migrates 1, 300 km across the plains will be displaced and destroyed.