South Georgia ... became a small military garrison, which returned to civilians in 2001. About 40 British soldiers and scientists currently live there. The island is a stopover on tourist trips ...
South Georgia Island, 250th Anniversary of British Possession, led by the great navigator James Cook
The stamp issue commemorates Possession itself and the start of South Georgia’s 250-year journey from obscurity to the modern age. On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James Cook landed ...
South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized world and trapped in the most cruel of climates, but it was destined for discovery. From its first recorded sightings more than 300 years ago ...
Technically, the hundred-mile-long, 20 mile-wide British overseas territory of South Georgia is uninhabited. Only a few visiting scientists and government fisheries inspectors occupy the island ...
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