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Encyclopedia Britannica



SOUTH GEORGIA

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 513 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOUTH GEORGIA , an uninhabited British
island
  in the
South
 
Atlantic
  Ocean, about 900 M. S. by E. of the Falklands, in 54 -55 S., 3638 W.; area 1600 sq. m. It is mountainous, with snowy peaks 6000 to 8000 ft. high, their slopes furrowed with deep gorges filled with glaciers. Its
geological
  constitutiongneiss and argillaceous schists, with no trace of fossilsshows that the
island
  is, like the Falklands, a surviving fragment of some greater land-
mass
  now vanished, most probably indicating a former extension of the Andean
system
 . At Royal Bay, on the
south
 -
east
  side, was stationed the German expedition sent out to observe the transit of
Venus
  in 1882. The island would be well suited for cattle or sheep farming but for its
damp
 , foggy climate. The flora is surprisingly
rich
 , and the German naturalists were able to collect thirteen flowering plants, mostly common also to the Falklands, but one allied to a form found in distant New Zealand. South Georgia is politically attached to the Falklands.


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