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steve2470

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Sat Dec 5, 2020, 04:43 PM Dec 2020

Useless trivia: Did you know there is an Apple Store on South Georgia Island (owned by UK) ? [View all]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Apple+Store/@-54.2807698,-36.5086261,21z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0xb93db6e252a87925:0x7ee37cda884db0bd!2sSouth+Georgia+and+the+South+Sandwich+Islands!3b1!8m2!3d-54.429579!4d-36.587909!3m4!1s0xbecb65459a495e73:0x3c707db51e26595f!8m2!3d-54.2807781!4d-36.5085641

Unnamed Road, Grytviken, Grytviken, SIQQ 1ZZ, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands


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Also a TGI Friday's ? A Taco Bell ? a Pizza Hut ?

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sandwich Islands. South Georgia is 165 kilometres (103 mi) long and 35 kilometres (22 mi) wide and is by far the largest island in the territory. The South Sandwich Islands lie about 700 kilometres (430 mi) southeast of South Georgia. The territory's total land area is 3,903 km2 (1,507 sq mi).[1] The Falkland Islands are about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) west from its nearest point.

No permanent native population lives in the South Sandwich Islands, and a very small non-permanent population resides on South Georgia.[2] There are no scheduled passenger flights or ferries to or from the territory, although visits by cruise liners to South Georgia are increasingly popular, with several thousand visitors each summer.

The United Kingdom claimed sovereignty over South Georgia in 1775 and the South Sandwich Islands in 1908. The territory of "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" was formed in 1985; previously, it had been governed as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. Argentina claimed South Georgia in 1927 and claimed the South Sandwich Islands in 1938.


I ran into this useless trivia while reading this story: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/05/943488926/photos-capture-worlds-largest-iceberg-as-it-heads-toward-south-atlantic-island

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