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SOUTH GEORGIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

SOUTH See also:
GEORGIA
GEORGIA , an uninhabited See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in the South See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic Ocean, about 900 M. S. by E. of the Falklands, in 54 -55° S., 36°–38° W.; See also:

AREA

area 1600 sq. m. It is mountainous, with snowy peaks 6000 to 8000 ft. high, their slopes furrowed with deep See also:

GORGES, SIR FERDINANDO (c. 1566-1647)

gorges filled with glaciers. Its See also:

GEOLOGICAL

geological constitution—See also:

GNEISS

gneiss and argillaceous See also:

SCHISTS (Gr. vxq'ecv, to split)

schists, with no trace of fossils—shows that the island is, like the Falklands, a surviving fragment of some greater See also:

LAND

land-See also:

mass now vanished, most probably indicating a former See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of the Andean See also:

SYSTEM

system. At Royal See also:

BAY

Bay, on the south-See also:

east See also:

side, was stationed the See also:

German expedition sent out to observe the transit of See also:

VENUS

Venus in 1882. The island would be well suited for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle or See also:

sheep farming but for its See also:

DAMP

damp, foggy See also:

CLIMATE

climate. The See also:

FLORA

flora is surprisingly See also:

rich, and the German naturalists were able to collect thirteen flowering See also:

PLANTS

plants, mostly See also:

COMMON

common also to the Falklands, but one allied to a See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form found in distant New See also:

ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand. South Georgia is politically attached to the Falklands.

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