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🏝️ South Georgia

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🏝️ South Georgia
British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, home to millions of seals, penguins and seabirds


🕐 3 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 22:20
📌 Fast Facts
  • British Overseas Territory located 1,300 km east of the Falkland Islands
  • No permanent human residents; administered from the UK
  • Approximately 30 million seabirds and 4 million seals breed annually
  • Largely glaciated with peaks exceeding 2,900 metres; subpolar oceanic climate

South Georgia is a remote, mountainous island in the South Atlantic Ocean administered as a British Overseas Territory ...

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