Bird Island off South Georgia Coordinates: 54°00′S, 038°03′W Map showing the island of South Georgia Image by ChrisO Adapted from Image:South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. ...
Map showing the island of South Georgia Image by ChrisO Adapted from Image:South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. ...
Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
Bird Island is 4.8 km (3 mi) long and 800 metres (0.5 mi) wide, separated from the western end of South Georgia by Bird Sound. It is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province. Discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook, who so named it because he saw numerous birds on the island. The island has been a station for Antarctic research since 1963, and is currently a Biological research station of the British Antarctic Survey at Jordan Cove. The main focus of the research is the ecology and population of the island's seabirds and seals. The island is home to 4 resident biologists, 65,000 Antarctic Fur Seals (around 1 for every 1.5 m² of the island), 14,000 pairs of albatross and several hundred thousand other seabirds. Motto Leo Terram Propriam Protegat(Latin) Let the Lion protect his own land or May the Lion protect his own land Anthem God Save the Queen Capital Grytviken Official languages English Government British overseas territory - Head of State Queen Elizabeth II - Commissioner Alan Huckle Area - Total 3,903 km² 1...
James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
BAS headquarters The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), formerly the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), is an institute of the Natural Environment Research Council, and has, for the last fifty years, undertaken the majority of Britains scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent. ...
Ernst Haeckel coined the term oekologie in 1866. ...
The Sooty Tern is highly aerial and marine and will spend years flying at sea without returning to land. ...
Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae Pinnipeds (fin-feet, lit. ...
Binomial name Arctocephalus gazella Peters, 1875 The Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of seven seals in the genus Arctocephalus. ...
Genera Diomedea Thalassarche Phoebastria Phoebetria Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). ...
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South Georgia Islands: Annenkov Island • Bird Island • Clerke Rocks • Cooper Island • Grass Island • Kupriyanov Island • Pickersgill Islands • Shag Rocks • South Georgia • Willis Islands • Welcome Islands
South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen • Bristol • Candlemas • Cook • Leskov • Montagu • Saunders • Thule • Vindication • Visokoi • Zavodovski • Traversay Islands • Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ...
Image File history File links Flag_of_South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2962x1952, 387 KB) Map of South Georgia Island published by the author Lyubomir Ivanov. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1042x1406, 22 KB) Map of the South Sandwich Islands published by the author Lyubomir Ivanov. ...
Annenokov Island ( ) is to the west of the main island of South Georgia. ...
The Clerke Rocks are a group small rocky islands 74 km Southeast of South Georgia at 55°01 S, 34°41 W, that extend 8 km in an from East to West. ...
Cooper Island can be seen on Cooks map Cooper Island ( ) is a small island to the south east of the main island of South Georgia. ...
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina. ...
Bellingshausen Island (59º25´S 027º03´W) is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778-1852) who discovered the island. ...
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Candlemas Island lies about two miles from Vindication Island and the two are separated by the Nelson Channel. ...
Location of Cook Island South Sandwich Islands Cook Island () is the central island of Southern Thule, in the South Sandwich Islands. ...
Leskov Island (56º40´S 028º10´W) is less than 1. ...
Montagu Island is the largest of the South Sandwich Islands, located in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica at 58°25′S 26°23′W. NASA satellite photograph of Montagu Island Orthographic projection centred on the South Sandwich Islands South Sandwich Islands The desolate, uninhabited island measures approximately...
Saunders Island location Orthographic projection centred over the South Sandwich Islands Saunders Island (57° 47′ S, 026° 27′ W) is an arc-shaped island 8. ...
Thule Island is one of the southermost of the South Sandwich Islands. ...
Orthographic projection centred on the South Sandwich Islands South Sandwich Islands Vindication Island lies about two miles from Candlemas Island and the two are separated by the Nelson Channel. ...
Location of Visokoi Island South Sandwich Islands Visokoi Island () is an uninhabited island in the Traversay Islands group of the South Sandwich Islands. ...
Zavodovski Island is a volcanic island in the South Sandwich Islands. ...
The Traversay Islands ( 56°36′ S 027°43′ W) are a group of three islands, consisting of Zavodovski, Leskov, and Visokoi Islands, at the northern end of the South Sandwich Islands. ...
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