South Georgia (Concert of Europe)

South Georgia is an insular colony of, consisting of an archipelago in the southern , about 1,390 kilometers to the southwest of the other British possession in the region, the : it includes South Georgia proper, a relatively large island, the Sandwich Islands, and a few other minor islands and islets. The archipelago, uninhabited upon discovery, was claimed by the United Kingdom as early as the late 18th century, but it was settled only during the 19th cenutry.

The islands of South Georgia are volcanic in origin, and thus mountainous and hilly: tall vegetation is limited to sparse forests. The population of the islands was much increased after the, when a number of Britons from the Shetland Islands (now known as ) chose not to become citizens of. The largest economic sectors of the colony are whaling, fishing, and naval industry.