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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 ...
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Richard William Seale's map of 1744, showing Roche Island and noting its discovery in 1675. The island of South Georgia was first sighted and visited in April 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, a London merchant and (despite his French name) an Englishman, who spent a fortnight in one of the island's bays. [4]
Toggle South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands subsection. 12.1 Atlantic Ocean islands. 13 Suriname. ... A map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
name = South Georgia Island Name used in the default map caption; image = Location map South Georgia.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = -53.809 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = -55.085 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -38.4 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal ...
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The rules were enacted in 1994 for the sole purpose of protecting one of the South's few remaining communities of people known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose ancestors worked island slave ...
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