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	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic.
		South Georgia and its associated islands, wich consist of the island of South Georgia Island, which is by far the largest island in the territory, the islands that immediately surround the main island of South Georgia and some remote and isolated islets west and east-southeast of the main island of South Georgia Island.
		South Georgia is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 1390 km south by east of the Falkland Islands, in 54-55°S, 36-38°W. It has a land area of 3756 km², including satellite islands, but excluding the South Sandwich Islands which form a separate island group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Georgia (1721 words)

	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina.
		South Georgia lies in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 1390 km south by east of the Falkland Islands, in 54-55°S, 36-38°W. It has a land area of 4066 km² (1600 sq.
		The Malvinas, the South Georgias, and the South Sandwich Islands, the conflict with Britain
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /south_sandwich_islands.htm (923 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		GEORGIA, one of the South Atlantic states of the U.S., bounded on the N by Tennessee and North Carolina, on the E by South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean, on the S by Florida, and on the W by Alabama.
		Georgia, with an area of 153,909 sq km (59,425 sq mi), is the 24th largest U.S. state and the biggest in land area E of the Mississippi R.; 5.6% of its land area is owned by the federal government.
		Georgia typically leads all states in peanut and pecan production and ranks among the top five states in the volume of tobacco output; these three crops are grown mainly in the S half of the state.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/georgia.html (4412 words)

	The US50 - A guide to the state of Georgia - History
		Georgia, the last of the 13 British colonies established on the Atlantic seaboard, was founded by James Edward Oglethorpe with 114 original settlers on February 12, 1733, at the present site of the city of Savannah.
		Georgia did not suffer direct devastation from the war until 1864 when General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced though Northern Georgia, besieged and captured Atlanta, and then pushed on to Savannah on his famous March to the Sea.
		In the final quarter of the 20th century, Georgia, with its capital city Atlanta, is emerging as a leader in the social, political and economic progress of the nation.
	www.theus50.com /georgia/history.shtml (2168 words)

	Whaling in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia
		Width varies from 3 to 25 miles between the formidable south shore and the deep bays of the north coast.
		South Georgia became an important whaling center, with seven shore stations in operation in 1915, when Sir Ernest Shackleton launched his third antarctic expedition.
		Grytviken, once the whaling capital of the South Atlantic, is a 15-minute walk around Cumberland Bay West from the British survey station on whale-shaped South Georgia.
	members.tripod.com /%7Eplacerstrike/whaling/falklands.html (1027 words)

	South Georgia Islands (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		South Georgia's total whale catch from 1904 to 1966 included 41,515 blue whales, 87,555 fin whales, 26,754 humpbacks, 15,128 sei whales and 3716 sperm whales: this was a total of 175,250 whales.
		South Georgia is a crescent-shaped island, measuring 170km long and 40km wide.
		South Georgia's largest rookery, consisting of 100,000 King penguins, can be found on the gravel beach at St Andrews Bay.
	www.70south.com /resources/islands/georgia (1044 words)

	South Georgia, South Atlantic, Antarctica, whaling
		Southwards, a magnificent Alpine country, illuminated by the rising sun, rose slowly from the sea; there were mighty fells with snowy crowns and with sharp, uncovered teeth, around the valleys through which enormous, broad rivers of ice came flowing to the sea.
		After the last whales were dismembered and gutted on South Georgia in the mid 1960s, Grytviken, and the similar shore stations at Leith, Stromness and Husvik, were simply abandoned and left to crumble.
		Away from the ghostly iron and steel, South Georgia teams with wildlife, and this is its new attraction.
	www.monolith.com.au /south_georgia (830 words)

	SOUTH GEORGIA RAILWAY
		The South Georgia Railway was incorporated on March 6, 1896 by the brothers James and Zenas Oglesby of Heartpine, Ga in connection with their sawmill operations into Southwest Georgia.
		The South Georgia experiment with rail cars early on, beginning in 1924 with the 204, which was used until 1927 when it was converted to a camp car.
		The South Georgia's doodlebug was then discontinued and they begin using larger diesels of the Southern.
	www.taplines.net /southgeorgia/sgry1.htm (731 words)

	The Living Edens -- South Georgia Island -- Ice and Isolation
		South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized world and trapped in the most cruel of climates, but it was destined for discovery.
		Despite claiming South Georgia for Britain, Cook saw little potential for the island and the area south of it.
		The men landed at King Haakon Bay on the uninhabited south coast of South Georgia, and Shackleton and two others trekked across the then-unmapped glaciers and mountains of the island to Stromness -- the first crossing of this rugged island.
	www.pbs.org /edens/southgeorgia/unique.html (1376 words)

	Antarctica Cruise and Travel Guide, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
		South Georgia and the South Sandwich are sub-Antarctic islands.
		From then until the mid 1960's South Georgia was one of the most important places in the world for the whaling industry.
		South Georgia may not be Antarctica proper, but it is an absolutely fantastic place, whether for the history, wildlife or the exhilaration of being in such an unspoiled and spectacular environment.
	www.coolantarctica.com /Travel/south_georgia_south_sandwich_islands.htm (1484 words)

	AllRefer.com - South Georgia, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		South Georgia, island, c.1,450 sq mi (3,760 sq km), S Atlantic Ocean, c.1,200 mi (1,930 km) E of Cape Horn.
		A dependency of the Falkland Islands from 1908 to 1985 (along with the South Sandwich Islands), it and the nine South Sandwich Islands are a dependency of Great Britain and, like the Falklands, are claimed by Argentina.
		Ernest Shackleton visited the island on his expeditions and is buried there, and sealers or whalers were based on the island from the late 1700s to the mid-1900s.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SthGeo.html (257 words)

	Antarctic Philately: South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
		In 1962, Graham Land, the South Orkneys, the South Shetlands, Alexander I Land and the part of Coats Land belonging to the Falkland Island Dependencies became a separate colony, the British Antarctic Territory.
		The FID were thus restricted to the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia.
		On October 3, 1985 a new constitution came into effect which meant that South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ceased to be dependencies of the Falkland Islands and they are now a separate territory.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000042.htm (193 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - South Georgia Island
		Located in the Southern Atlantic Ocean roughly 1,700 miles (2,735 km) due east of Argentina’s southernmost tip, South Georgia Island was a stop-over point for Sir Ernest Shackleton in November 1914.
		South Georgia Island is entirely covered by snow and ice in this striking true-color image acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, on August 8, 2002.
		South Georgia Island appears to be creating a wake of thicker marine stratocumulus clouds flowing away from its northeast shore.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10312 (421 words)

	South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean
		South Georgia is an island lying on the Scotia Arc in the South Atlantic Ocean located at 37° West, 54.5° South, about 1,300 Km East-South-East of the Falkland Islands.
		In the South Atlantic, the only visible evidence of this substantial feature are the volcanic islands of Ascension, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha.
		Nearly two hundred islands lay scattered to the east and south of Latin America.These islands, which include South Georgia, were mainly discovered and charted by British navigators, and form part of the Scotia Arc which extends from the Andes to the Antarctic continent.
	www.btinternet.com /~sa_sa/south_georgia/south_georgia.html (409 words)

	South Georgia Whaling Stations
		Throughout the Whaling Epoch on South Georgia the vast majority of the station staff and boat crews were Norwegian.
		The company purchased the South Georgia Exploration Company's lease and was granted a whaling license from 16 Sept. 1908.
		The station was sub-leased to Nippon Suisan Kaisha for 1963/64 to 1966/67 but closed on 15 Dec. 1965, the end of South Georgia whaling.
	www.geocities.com /treatyport/sgeorgia-stations.html (494 words)

	South Georgia, South Atlantic, Antarctica, whaling
		At 54 degrees S and 37 degrees W, South Georgia is about as remote as any place on earth could possibly be.
		The combined bird population of South Georgia numbers well into the millions.
		South Georgia, once again replete through isolation and human inactivity, has all but returned to its former glory, marred only by man's untidy monuments to greed and cruelty.
	monolith.com.au /south_georgia (830 words)

	South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
		South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) used to be a dependency of the Falkland Islands, but since 1985, under the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Order, was formed as a separate British Overseas Territory, under a Commissioner who is at the same time, Governor of the Falkland Islands.
		I received a letter from Gordon Liddle, Operations Manager for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, via Michel Lupant, confirming that the old flags used a white disc, but that the new flags he has just ordered are exactly like the ones on my site.
		The estoiles are from the arms of James Cook, who named South Georgia in honour of King George III and the South Sandwich Islands in reference to his sponsor, John Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1775 when the islands were discovered.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gs.html (671 words)

	King Edward Point, South Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAS scientists are undertaking a programme of scientific research at the new facility under contract to the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI), which is aimed at providing sound scientific advice to assist in the sustainable management of the valuable commercial fisheries around the island.
		Fishing activity around South Georgia is regulated by internationally adopted measures agreed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
		In addition, fish surveys using chartered fishing or research vessels operating around South Georgia (such as the biennial trawl survey currently undertaken by collaboration between MRAG and BAS) involve scientists from the KEP laboratory.
	www.antarctica.ac.uk /Living_and_Working/Stations/King_Edward_Point (794 words)

	Georgia Secretary of State \| Corporations Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Georgia corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships are formed by filing with the Corporations Division.
		Trademarks and service marks used in Georgia may be registered with the Corporations Division.
		Division services are available through the Secretary of State’s South Georgia office by hand delivering material to 238 East Second Street, Tifton, GA 31794.
	www.sos.state.ga.us /corporations (464 words)

	South Georgia Ballet
		South Georgia Ballet is a regional ballet company founded in 1998 by Alison Bundrick, Director of South Georgia Performing Arts.
		The South Georgia Ballet Company is designed to provide additional training and challenging performing opportunities necessary for the serious dancer.
		South Georgia Ballet made its first guest appearance in Albany Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker in December 1998 and has presented this holiday classic annually for the past four years at the Cairo High School Auditorium.
	www.sgpa.us /ballet.html (189 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Georgia was absorbed into the Russian Empire in the 19th century.
		Georgia's main economic activities include the cultivation of agricultural products such as citrus fruits, tea, hazelnuts, and grapes; mining of manganese and copper; and output of a small industrial sector producing alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, metals, machinery, and chemicals.
		Georgia also suffers from energy shortages; it privatized the T'bilisi electricity distribution network in 1998, but payment collection rates remain low, both in T'bilisi and throughout the regions.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/gg.html (1485 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Saakashvili: Russia to Blame for South Ossetia Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During a July 11 rally in Tbilisi to support the government’s South Ossetia policy, Saakashvili stated that the "[c]urrent crisis in South Ossetia is not a problem between Georgians and Ossetians.
		Moscow disputes Tbilisi’s claims, and continues to maintain that Georgia alone is responsible for the crisis in South Ossetia.
		Georgia has offered to destroy the missiles, now held in Tbilisi, in the presence of a Russian representative, but Moscow has rejected the proposal.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav071204.shtml (1203 words)

	Welcome to South Georgia
		Georgia's First Congressional District is comprised of 29 counties in south Georgia.
		It's a large District extending from south of Savannah to the Florida border, west to Moultrie and north to Warner Robins.
		Georgia's coastline, including the Golden Isles of St. Simons Island (home of historic Fort Frederica National Monument), Jekyll Island State Park, and Sea Island (home of the "5-star" resort hotel The Cloister), also Cumberland Island National Seashore and many miles of beautiful marshes.
	www.house.gov /kingston/ga01.htm (391 words)

	South Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		South America is the nearest landmass, some 600 miles away.
		Considerably larger than either the United States or Europe, and twice the size of Australia, the continent is surrounded by a frozen sea that varies in area from one million square miles in summer to 7.3 million square miles in winter.
		South Georgia has its own astonishing concentrations of wildlife and awe-inspiring scenery ranging from 7,000-foot mountains and mighty glaciers to deep fjords and low-lying grassland.
	www.50plusexpeditions.com /Destinations/Antarctica/APSG.htm (1249 words)

	Georgia Quail Hunting-Quail Hunting at Rio Piedra Plantation
		At Rio Piedra Plantation we strive to uphold the storied tradition of Georgia quail hunting that has come to be known as the classic gentleman's sport.
		Incredible dining, first-rate accommodations and Georgia quail hunting that is second to none is a big reason why 98% of our guests return the following year.
		Rio Piedra Plantation is located in the heart of plantation country on the banks of the Flint river.
	www.riopiedraplantation.com (345 words)

	No. 3 Georgia Slips Past South Carolina 20-16 :: David Greene throws for 213 yards and two touchdowns.
		Georgia didn't score until Andy Bailey made a 26-yard field goal with 6:47 left in the half, and he added another as the second quarter ended.
		South Carolina's heralded running back Demetris Summers also struggled on his first carry, injuring his right ankle on a 3-yard run.
		Georgia is 15-6-2 at Williams-Brice Stadium and under coach Mark Richt, and the Bulldogs are 13-1 in an opponents' home stadium.
	georgiadogs.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/recaps/091104aaa.html (640 words)

	Welcome to Georgia's Classic South! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From the shores of Lake Thurmond (formerly Clarks Hill) or Lake Oconee to the banks of the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers, and all points in between, savor your experience in East Central Georgia ---the Classic South.
		Georgia's Classic South travel region is less than 1 ½ hours east of Atlanta in East Central Georgia.
		Here the gentle hills of Georgia's piedmont meet the beginnings of the coastal plain, creating a backdrop of natural beauty that accentuates the history and heritage of the region.
	www.classicsouth.org (185 words)

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