South Georgia, a group of islands, uninhabited, and almost perpetually ice-bound, in 54° 30' S. lat. and 36°-38° W. long., nearly 800 miles E. by S. of the Falkland Isles, of which they are a dependency. Area, 1000 sq. m. Discovered in 1675, they were taken possession of by Captain Cook in 1775; and here in 1882-83 lived the German expedition for observing the transit of Venus.
South Georgia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 593
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