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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 ...
South Georgia passport entry stamp, issued at the Post Office in Grytviken 1984 Historical and modern settlements of South Georgia Island. Argentina claimed South Georgia in 1927. [12] The basis of this claim and of a later claim in 1938 to the South Sandwich Islands has been questioned. [13]
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 ...
Boris Johnson met President Alberto Fernandez at the G7 summit.
South Georgia was retaken by British forces on 25 April 1982, during Operation Paraquet. [37] In 2013, Michael Poole, seeking reconciliation for his role in shooting down the Puma helicopter, contacted Víctor Ibáñez, president of the Asociación Veteranos Defensores de Malvinas (Veterans' Association of Malvinas Defenders, known as Avedema).
Argentina has vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago in return for securing the future of a strategically important ...
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 ]
Argentina received military assistance only from Peru – despite receiving cursory support from the Organisation of American States in a resolution [34] supporting Argentina's sovereignty and deploring European Community sanctions (with Chile, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States attending but abstaining), and Peruvian ...