The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 SOUTH GEORGIA. 481 and a fresh supply of provisions. An inlet in the harbour is full of dismasted hulks Mhich were found too damaged to be worth while patching up again. The administration of the archipelago is entrusted to a governor, directly appointed by the Crown, and assisted by a legislative and an executive council, also nominated by the Queen. Since 1892 the colonists have begun to take part in the government of the islands. South Georgia. South Georgia, about 1,600 square miles in exten
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 SOUTH GEORGIA. 481 and a fresh supply of provisions. An inlet in the harbour is full of dismasted hulks Mhich were found too damaged to be worth while patching up again. The administration of the archipelago is entrusted to a governor, directly appointed by the Crown, and assisted by a legislative and an executive council, also nominated by the Queen. Since 1892 the colonists have begun to take part in the government of the islands. South Georgia. South Georgia, about 1,600 square miles in extent, depends administratively on the Government of the Falkland Islands. But it is uninhabited, and only occasionally visited by fishers and sailors. Even its contour lines are not yet Fig. 190.—South Georgia. Scale 1 ,000 Miles. 36 Miles. accurately determined, and the surveys taken by the English and Russian navi- gators do not penetrate inland, nor, in some cases, even to the head of the bays and creeks. The relief of the interior was unknown in the year 1882, when a German scientific expedition established itself at Royal Bay, at the eastern extremity of the island, to take part in the circumpolar studies, at that time undertaken by the leading maritime powers in connection with the transit of Yenus. But the expedition confined its explorations to the immediate vicinity of the bay. The island, above which rise snowy peaks ranging from 6,500 to 8,000 feet in height, consists exclusively of very old unfossilifeious formations, gneiss, and argillaceous schists, of difficult access from the sea. The cliffs have been worn by
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