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South Georgia
King Edward Point · Antarctic
Country facts
Flag
🇬🇸
Capital
King Edward Point
Region
Antarctic
Area
3,903 km²
Landlocked
No
Independent
No
UN member
No
ISO code
GS · SGS
Official name
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Coordinates
-54.50, -37.00
External sources
Nearby in South Georgia4
Antarctica
Antarctica
Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island or Bouvetøya is one of the sub-Antarctic islands, an uninhabited ice-clad place 2,600 km south-southwest of Cape Town. It has a good claim to be the world's most remote island: anywhere within 2,000 km is similarly desolate, such as mainland Antarctica. It lies 6,040 km south of the equator and is a dependency of Norway; for comparison, Oslo main railway station is 6650 km north of
