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James Cook. The group of Shag Rocks and Black Rock forming the west extremity of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is situated 270 km or 150 nmi west by north of the South Georgian mainland. Probably discovered in 1762 by the Spanish ship Aurora, these rocks appeared on early maps as Aurora Islands ...
www.gov.gs. 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 ...
South Georgia. 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 ...
Archaeologist David Guilfoyle talks about the unique history of Salisbury Island, and what exciting secrets it may hold.
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But the name of the ghost town where the museum sits, Grytviken (pronounced Grit-vicken), gives a clue to the island's history. The settlement was named by Swedish explorers in the early 20th ...
South Georgia has an area of 1,450 square miles (3,756 square km). It is 100 miles (160 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide and rises to Mount Paget (9,625 feet [2,934 metres]). The island’s bleak Antarctic climate, with perpetual snow covering three-fourths of the island, supports only hardy grasses and other tundra plants.
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This is about the same time that geologists began realizing the Georgia barrier islands were made of both Pleistocene and modern sediments as amalgams of two shorelines. This made the Georgia islands special, unlike nearly every other known barrier island systems in the world. Vertical shaft of a modern ghost-shrimp burrow eroding out of a ...
