Flag and country information - Overseas territory of the UK SOUTH GEORGIA and SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
Area - 3,903 sq km / 1,506 sq ml
Capital - administered from the Falkland Islands
Population - permanent group of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey stationed at Grytviken, a former whaling base, also at a biological base on Bird Island, which lies at the western tip of South Georgia. South Sandwich is uninhabited
Physical features - islands rise steeply from the sea, are mountainous and barren; South Georgia has glacier covered mountains; active volcanoes on South Sandwich
Industies - fishing licenses, postage stamps, some tourism
