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Fisheries and environmental protection is the responsibility of the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) which contracts with Workboat Services Limited (WBS), a Falkland Islands company, to operate the vessel MV Pharos SG in the South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands Maritime Zone. The current contract for that ...
The post was created in 1985 when South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands was split from the Falkland Islands Dependencies to create a new overseas territory. As the territory has no native inhabitants, and the only population is the visiting military garrisons, and scientists from the British Antarctic Survey , there was no appointment of ...
Carl A. Larsen. In the early 20th century South Georgia experienced a new rush of economic activity and settlement. Following a 1900 advertisement by the Falklands Government the entire island was leased to a Punta Arenas company, and a subsequent conflict of interests with the Compañía Argentina de Pesca which had started whaling at Grytviken since December 1904 was settled by the British ...
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 ...
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 south-southeast of Bristol Island . [ 3 ]
The territories constituting the Falkland Islands Dependencies in 1908 were listed by the Letters Patent as "the groups of islands known as South Georgia, the South Orkneys, the South Shetlands, and the Sandwich Islands, and the territory known as Graham's Land, situated in the South Atlantic Ocean to the south of the 50th parallel of south ...
Buildings and structures in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (3 P) C. ... Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (3 C, 1 P) H.
Treaties extended to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (48 P) Pages in category "Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" This category contains only the following page.