South georgia and the south sandwich islands flag. South georgia south sandwich islands. The sovereignty of south georgia and the south sandwich islands is disputed between the united kingdom and argentinathe united kingdom claimed south georgia in 1775 annexed the islands in 1908 and has exercised de facto control with the exception of a brief period during the falklands war in 1982 when the islands were partially controlled by argentina. There are no permanent inhabitants but there are scientific research bases.
These display as a single emoji on supported platforms. South georgia and south sandwich islands territory was created on october 3 1985. South georgia south sandwich islands emoji is a flag sequence combining regional indicator symbol letter g and regional indicator symbol letter s.
The territory was allowed to have its flag after it was created. 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. 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.
According to the flag bulletin xxxii2 1993 the british dependency of south georgia and south sandwich islands was created on 3 october 1985. Previously the territory was a part of the falkland islands dependency and used the same flag.
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