The Shag Rocks

The Shag Rocks are 6 small islands in the westernmost extreme of South Georgia, 240 kilometers West of the main island of South Georgia and 1000 kilometers east of the Falkland Islands. The Shag Rocks are located at 53°33′ S 42°02′ W. 16 kilometers further Southeast is the Black Rock. The Black Rock is located at 53°39′ S 41°48′ W. The Shag Rocks and the Black Rock belong to the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province. Photograph of the Shag rocks File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina. ... South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina. ... A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper ( Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ... Orthographic projection centred on the South Sandwich Islands South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI, Spanish: Islas Georgias del Sur y Islas Sandwich del Sur) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province (because of...

The Shag Rocks cover a total area of less than 20 hectares (200,000 m²) and have a peak elevation above sea level of 75 m.

The main wildlife found on the islands are the eponymous shags, prions and wandering albatrosses. Genera Nannopterum Phalacrocorax Leucocarbo The Phalacrocoracidae family of birds is represented by over thirty species of cormorants and shags. ... Species Fairy Prion, Slender-billed Prion, Fulmar Prion, Broad-billed Prion, Antarctic Prion, Salvins Prion, A prion is a petrel (genus Pachyptila) found in Antarctica and nearby islands. ... Binomial name Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 The best known Albatross is the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), which occurs in all parts of the Southern Oceans. ...

The Shag Rocks were discovered by Joseph de la Llana with the ship Aurora in 1762, and originally named Aurora Islands, after the ship. They were known to sealers prior to 1823. They were later rediscovered by James Sheffield and given their current name, probably because shags and other sea birds frequent them. They were charted by DI personnel on the William Scoresby in 1927. The first landing on the islands was made 1956 when an Argentinian geologist was lowered from a helicopter to collect rock samples. The term Shag may refer to one of the following. ...