South georgia and the south sandwich islands flag map. Citation neededthe new territory of south georgia and the south sandwich islands sgssi was created in 1985 as is evidenced by the letters patent and order in council that are. The territory was allowed to have its flag after it was created. Previously the territory was a part of the falkland islands dependency and used the same flag.
South georgia and the south sandwich islands is an antarctican country covering 390300 km2. The flag used in the territory consists of a blue flag with the union jack on the canton of the flag and the coat of arms of the territory on the fly side. It was first sighted by captain cook in 1775 who named it after king george iii.
I the copyright holder of this work hereby publish it under the following licenses. South georgia island south georgia island is a sub antarctic island administered by the united kingdom as part of south georgia and the south sandwich islandsit is located 1390 km southeast of the falkland islands and 2150 km from south america. Its geographic coordinates are 54 30 s 37 00 w and grytviken is the capital city.
These display as a single emoji on supported platforms. South georgia south sandwich islands emoji is a flag sequence combining regional indicator symbol letter g and regional indicator symbol letter s. South georgia is part of south georgia and the south sandwich islands which is a british overseas territory and overseas territory of the european union.
And slightly larger than rhode island. The areaincludes shag rocks black rock clerke rocks south georgia island bird island and the 11 islands of south sandwich. South georgia and the south sandwich islands sgssi is a british overseas territory in the southern atlantic oceanit is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands consisting of south georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the south sandwich islands.
The flag of south georgia and the south sandwich islands was granted on 3 october 1985 when the territory was created. South georgia south sandwich islands was added to emoji 1. This file is from the open clip art library which released it explicitly into the public domain see here.
Flag map of south georgia excluding the south sandwich islands date. South georgia is 165 kilometres 103 mi long and 35 kilometres 22 mi wide and is by far the largest island in the territory.