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Grytviken

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Invisible Island

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Q:  What are the sandwich islands also known as? It came up in a quiz and no-one knew the answer - I thought it was Hawaii 

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A: 'Eighteenth-century British explorers renamed Hawaii the Sandwich Islands after the Earl of Sandwich in England, not to describe the dish made with two slices of bread. I... 

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Top South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Writers

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On the edge of Antarctica

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 "If you were to take a giant carving knife, slice along beneath on of the highest mountain ridges of Switzerland, just where the huge glaciers tumble into the valley below, and then drop your slice of... 

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South Georgia - Shackleton's grave

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 Of all the places I have visited South Georgia has to be the place I have got closest to nature. Visiting there on HMS Broadsword in 1987 I had several chances to go ashore onto South Georgia. One... 

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Ian's South Georgia Page

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 I had the opportunity to visit South Georgia whilst I was in the Falklsnds for a second visit. I travelled down by sea, on an ocean going tug and spent Christmas day and boxing day at the research... 

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J42north's new South Georgia Page

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 South Georgia is one of those magical places still left on earth, though it, too, is changing. There are concentrations of wildlife here that eloquently demonstrate the persistence of life in the face... 

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South Sandwich and South Georgia flight

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 13th March 2001 I had the chance of a VC10 flight over the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia and I didn't hesitate to accept it! It was a 7 hour flight from Mount Pleasant and back again most... 

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