• “Team Rat” (the Rodent Eradication team) gets to work and the first phase of fieldwork to eradicate rats from South Georgia is completed in March 2011. In just 28 days a team of eleven experts led by Project Director Tony Martin treats an area of 12,500 hectares. Although this first phase of the project involves only 12% of the total rat-infested land area of South Georgia, the 12,500 hectares treated already make this the largest island rodent eradication operation ever undertaken in the world.
• In September a conference is held at the University of Dundee, Managing Industrial & Cultural Heritage: South Georgia in Context in association with The International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage and the South Georgia Association. The conference aims to decipher the future for South Georgia’s industrial heritage, contributing to the future heritage strategy for SGHT and creating a decision-making framework to assist in the management of South Georgia’s industrial heritage sites. It is co-organised by Prof. Elaine Shemilt, Prof. Bjorn Basberg and Prof. David Munro.
• A pocket field guide to the natural history and wildlife of South Georgia, written by Robert Burton and John Croxall is published by the SGHT, becoming THE reference book for South Georgia fauna and flora.
• Lynsey Easton, a graduate of St. Andrews University Museum Studies course, joins the museum team as SGHT’s first Curatorial Intern.
• SGHT awards the Shallow Marine Surveys Group based in the Falkland Islands with funding for an intertidal survey. The group collects, sorts and identifies thousands of specimens, creating  a baseline of the biodiversity in the shallow waters around South Georgia and identifying thirty-four macrofaunal species, two of  which   are new to science.