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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Southern Ocean
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Profile

Background and figures as recorded in the CIA World Factbook.

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands lie approximately 1,000 km east of the Falkland Islands and have been under British administration since 1908 -- except for a brief period in 1982 when Argentina occupied them. Grytviken, on South Georgia, was a 19th- and early 20th-century whaling station. Famed explorer Ernest SHACKLETON stopped there in 1914 en route to his ill-fated attempt to cross Antarctica on foot. He returned some 20 months later with a few companions in a small boat and arranged a successful rescue for the rest of his crew, which was stranded off the Antarctic Peninsula.

Population
no permanent inhabitants
Area
3,903 sq km
Location
Southern South America, islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of the tip of South America
Climate
variable, with mostly westerly winds throughout the year interspersed with periods of calm; nearly all precipitation falls as snow
Natural resources
fish

Source: CIA World Factbook — a work of the US government, in the public domain

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Climate
variable, with mostly westerly winds throughout the year interspersed with periods of calm; nearly all precipitation falls as snow
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