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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 and the South Sandwich Islands are a chain of Subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. The islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom: they have no permanent residents and their administration is physically based in the Falklands, but since 1985 they have been a separate jurisdiction.
The volcanic South Sandwich Islands and heavily ice-covered South Georgia island lie sequestered in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,400 km east of Falkland Island and 1,700 km from the southern tip of South America.
The mixing and upwelling of water along the Convergence creates a food chain: it fosters the growth of plankton, which are eaten by krill, which are eaten by whales and other large species. These in turn became hunted by humans. South Georgia and the other islands were discovered (or with the Aurora Islands, imagined) in the 18th and 19th ...
This provides the food at the base of the food chain that feeds fish and krill to supply the huge concentration of wildlife found on the island. The Eastern half of South Georgia, glaciers can been seen coming down from the mountains, to the bottom right, icebergs that have calved from the glacier can be seen floating away.
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 ...
South Georgia, mountainous barren island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 800 miles (1,300 km) east-southeast of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). The island is part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, although Argentina also claims the territory.
