The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1943–46

The Falkland Islands Dependencies are divided into two main groups; the one consisting of South Georgia with its important whaling stations together with the South Orkneys and the South Sandwich Islands, and the other of the South Shetlands and the Graham Land peninsula. Coats Land and other large l...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Wordie, J.M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Cambridge University Press 1946
Subjects:
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Sandwich Islands
South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia
Graham Land
Coats Land
Antarc*
Antarctica
Polar Record
Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526948/
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400042479
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Summary:The Falkland Islands Dependencies are divided into two main groups; the one consisting of South Georgia with its important whaling stations together with the South Orkneys and the South Sandwich Islands, and the other of the South Shetlands and the Graham Land peninsula. Coats Land and other large land areas in the Antarctic continent itself are also included. The Dependencies were the first part of Antarctica to be brought under British control, and are defined in Letters Patent of 1908 and 1917.

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