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. They include The Office Boys (spanish Los Mandaderos) at the Northeastern end, and Nobby (spanish Islote Llamativo or Roca Notable) at the Southeastern end of the group. The islands belong to the Britishoverseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. 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). ... South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province (because of that, some of the islands have also Spanish names). ...
The islands were discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under Capt. James Cook, who named them for Charles Clerke, officer on the Resolution who first saw the rocks. British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ...
The ClerkeRocks are a group of small rocky islands 74 km southeast of South Georgia Island at 55°01′ S 34°41′ W that extend 8 km from east to west.
They include The Office Boys (Spanish: Los Mandaderos) at the northeastern end and Nobby (Spanish: Islote Llamativo or Roca Notable) at the southeastern end of the group.
The islands were discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under Capt. James Cook, who named them for Charles Clerke, an officer on the HMS Resolution who first saw the rocks.
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