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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sandwich Islands. South Georgia is 165 kilometres (103 mi) long and 35 kilometres (22 mi) wide ...
South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east–west direction, South Georgia is around 170 kilometres (106 mi) long and has a maximum width of 35 ...
The territory of "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" was formed in 1985; [2] previously, both archipelagos had been governed as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. On 10 February 2008, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter Scale had its epicenter 205 km (127 mi) south-southeast of Bristol Island . [ 3 ]
King Edward Point (also known as KEP) is a permanent British Antarctic Survey research station on South Georgia island and is the capital of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. [1] It is situated in Cumberland East Bay on the northeastern coast of the island. [2]
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Map of South Sandwich Islands showing location of Thule Island. Thule Island is roughly triangular in shape and 14 square kilometres (5 + 1 ⁄ 2 sq mi) in area with a long, panhandle-like peninsula called Hewison Point, three kilometres (2 mi), extending to the southeast.
Saunders Island has dimensions of about 8.5 by 5 kilometres (5.3 mi × 3.1 mi) with a crescent-like shape. On the eastern side of the island, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) wide Cordelia Bay opens to the northeast between Nattriss Point [a], [13] [14] a rocky headland, [12] to the east and Sombre Point to the north, with the Brothers Rocks 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) due north of Cordelia Bay [13] [14] and ...
Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. British sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is disputed by Argentina.The United Kingdom claimed South Georgia in 1775 (at the time it was the Kingdom of Great Britain), [1] [2] annexed the islands in 1908, and has exercised de facto control with the exception of a brief period during the Falklands War in 1982, when ...