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Editorial Reviews - Islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands From the Publisher Chapters: Islands in the South Sandwich Islands, Islands of South Georgia, Southern Thule, Bird Island, South Georgia, Thule Island, Annenkov Island, Shag Rocks, South Georgia, Montagu Island, Zavodovski Island, Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands, Cooper Island, Candlemas Island, Bristol Island, Bellingshausen Island, Pickersgill Islands, Leskov Island, Traversay Islands, Visokoi Island, Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, Candlemas Islands, Clerke Rocks, Albatross Island, Vindication Island, Grass Island, South Georgia, Kupriyanov Islands, Prion Island, Black Rock, South Georgia, Willis Islands, Mcnish Island, Welcome Islands, Mollymawk Island, Samuel Islands, Jomfruene, Tern Island, South Georgia, Trinity Island, Willis Islands, Grassholm, South Georgia, Proud Island, Skua Island, Petrel Island, Black Rocks, South Georgia, West Skerry, Skrap Skerries, Tanner Island, Invisible Island, Crescent Island, East Skerry, South Georgia Island. Excerpt: Flag of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Location of Southern Thule South Sandwich IslandsSouthern Thule is a collection of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule (Morrell). Southern Thule is British territory, though claimed by Argentina. The island group is barren, windswept, bitterly cold, and uninhabited, of no real strategic or economic value. The Admiralty's Antarctic Pilot says that Southern Thule is part of an old sunken volcano, and is covered with ash and penguin guano. There are seals, petrels, and a bank of kelp just offshore, especially around a small inlet on Morrell called Ferguson Bay. The island group was first sighted by in 1775 by the expedition of James Cook, who named it Southern Thule ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1458662 Synopsis Chapters: Islands in the South Sandwich Island
